Posted on 07/02/2019 1:43:38 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Last January, Lauren Barnathan, 31, didn’t realize what was happening when she tried to roll over in bed but couldn’t because her left side was limp. The Tampa, Florida, resident had always been fit and active, so the tell-tale signs she was experiencing didn’t add up in her mind for someone her age.
As soon as her then-fiancé flipped on the bedside light, however, he knew exactly what was happening: Lauren was having a stroke.
Adam Barnathan, 32, an emergency medicine doctor, recognized the facial droop, inability to use one side of her body, and slurred speech that he often saw at the hospital.
“People always say I was lucky that I married a doctor, but any person in the world could have seen these signs and symptoms,” she told Runner’s World. “Luckily, we live close to the hospital, which is a comprehensive stroke center, and I received intervention within the first few hours.”
A year later, she’s made a 99 percent recovery, and the couple recently ran the Gasparilla Half Marathon together in February. It was the first half marathon for both of them.
“If you’re young and have a stroke, the biggest aspect that helps your recovery is being fit before and after it,” he said. “Active people recover the best.”
Now married, the Barnathans make running a part of their daily routine, whether as a morning habit or date-night run down the Tampa Riverwalk before going to dinner together. Since Lauren’s stroke, they’ve adapted their lifestyles to fit in more running, as well as better nutrition and stretching, which is well worth the changes, they say.
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Wait until he gets divorced raped, he’ll look back on that morning in a whole new light.
Pleased at the lady’s recovery. RW had a story in a recent print edition about a youngish man who had a stroke. I wonder if there’s a trend in the incidence of strokes among younger people. I’ll have to do some googling!
Rate of strokes seems to be constant to very slightly downward between 1995 and 2006.
No guy gets married and sees this coming.
One out of six people are expected to get a stroke. In the US someone suffers a stroke every eight minutes.
One out of six people are expected to get a stroke. In the US someone suffers a stroke every eight minutes.
Bitter is what bitter does - don’t let the mask slip too far...some folks might see a bigger slice of “pathetic” than they are comfortable with.
Not bitter, just reality for far too many men.
You just won Thread Hijack of the Month . . . and only two days in, too.
My first wife turned out to be a nightmare...physically took the kids from MS (where I was stationed) to NY “for a visit” and then served me with papers...did everything she could to alienate the kids and bleed me and had me thinking homicidal thoughts for a while. Finally had to do some serious praying (trip back to MS from NY after visiting the kids gave me lots of alone/quiet time for prayer) and by the time I got back, the load had been lifted to never return.
In April, I celebrated 27 years with the wife I wish I had found the first time, the kids (grown and have kids of their own) call her “Mom” and call their blood mother, “mother”. She is abut to become a widow without any savings and her income is about to be severely diminished...ne of her biggest fears is not being taken care of - the guy she’s married to was married to her best friend who died of cancer about 18 years ago...she spent a lot of time “helping him take care of his dying wife” and never moved out when she passed. He’s been disabled for years with active alcoholism and other problems and it finally got so bad that he is tired of living and drinking more to help speed up the process.
I could have wasted a lot of time being upset with her and would have missed out on much...as it is, I actually feel a bit sorry for her because the life she chose didn’t pan out anywhere near to what she envisioned.
She still gets part of my military retirement and it may keep her in beans but not much else...he hasn’t worked in years and his SS won’t be much and she worked sporadically in some low paying jobs so her own SS can’t be but a few hundred a month.
Why waste time? :)
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