Courtney
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But yeah, back to all this, all the doctors, the nurses, so many people like just filling my room all at once.
And they just sat, you know, had a...
try to sit my mom down and uh they're like hey like can we like talk outside and so i they took my mom outside and that's when they said we you know we looked at the mri we looked at the ct and it looks like she
had a stroke and the clot, she had an ischemic stroke, which means that it was a blood clot that cut off the brain's blood supply or hemorrhagic that you can have.
You can also have a hemorrhagic stroke that means that the brain is bleeding
and but it was just the a clot went up to my brain so do they know what caused the clot yeah okay no well at the time no okay because they just knew it was from a clot yeah they just knew there was a clot was in my brain and that's you know ultimately happened what happened and my mom just was just so
like in shock, like she just told me like she just fell to her knees, like she couldn't believe what she was hearing, what they were telling her.
And they were asking like, how did she have the stroke?
And they're just more like, we don't know, ultimately.
Because why we asked that she was on birth control is because birth control can cause clots and that can travel up to the brain.
And she's not in birth control.
So we're just, we're like, why does she have one?
So we're, they're like, we'll do everything we can until like, to figure out like what, like why she had the stroke.
And I, if you get to the hospital in time, like,
I think before six hours is the max, you can get this medication.
It's called TPA or TKA or something like that.
You can take and it can reverse all the defects that stroke caused.
But my timeline, since I had to be, you know, driven by boat, looked at and assessed, yeah, like assessed at Lake Powell.
And again, also assessed and looked at Lake Powell and then being flown and then looking,