Stroke at 18 Years Old
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What does it feel like to have a stroke at 18 years old?
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Can you be perfectly healthy and still have a stroke?
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My name is Courtney and I'm here to talk about my stroke that I had when I was 18 years old. My childhood growing up was I had three siblings. I had a mom.
What are the earliest stroke symptoms most people ignore?
Everyone has a mom and dad, but I had my parents there. And growing up, I did a ton of sports.
How do you know when something is seriously wrong with your body?
I was very active. I played volleyball, basketball. I did gymnastics. I loved doing all those and that it would have me doing them year round where I wasn't like never not doing something. And so I just loved sports. I loved being a part of sports. And yeah, and I never knew something was wrong with me until like, you know, the stroke happened.
So prior to that, clean bill of health.
What happens during a stroke in real time?
Yes. Nothing. Yeah.
Okay. Like I was, I was perfectly healthy. I was, I, every time that I went to the doctor, they're like, oh yeah, you're good. Right.
Why is timing critical in a medical emergency like a stroke?
I'm like, you're fine. And I, and I would be like, oh, okay, well I'm fine. And they say I'm fine and I'll just believe them.
Yeah, you're not going to question it. Yeah. Especially when you're young.
Yes. I'm like, I'm, I'm especially like, I'm not going to like question my, like my doctors because obviously I'm like, They're the professional in this and I'm not. So I'm like, oh, well, I'm fine. And yeah, growing up, I just had a normal childhood. It was not anything out of the ordinary. My parents did get divorced, which should have happened. It just did not work out. They were just... I love them both, but they do not mix well together. It happens. Yeah. So I'm like, it's fine. It's better now. But in 2019, I graduated from high school. was just like, you know, starting my life, like going to college and, you know, figuring what I wanted to do in this life. And I, at the time I didn't know really what I wanted to do.
I didn't know like what I wanted to do, like pass like for a job or anything. And so I just was, I was just thinking maybe I'll just take a gap year of like, you know, just figuring my stuff out before I actually go to college. And, or maybe I was like, maybe I can do my generals, get that over with and then like figure out what I wanna actually do. And so that was like my thought process of it because I was, really like, I don't know. I don't, I really have no idea what I want to do. And so I graduated in May, like the end of May of 2019. And, um, and earlier that year, my, my great aunt passed away, my grandma's sister. And I was very, very close to her. I, like, I, I, It was just not, it was somebody that was very close to me.
What is the recovery process like after a stroke at a young age?
Some people aren't very close with like, you know, great aunts or great like.
Like someone that's not like immediate family.
Yeah, like you're not even like your cousins. It's like. But our family, I was very close to her. We would always go to like power together and we'd always go over to their house for Christmas Eve, you know, because they always did like a Christmas Eve party and they would always host it. And we would, like all of our family, like even extended, like would go and, be there and they just loved Christmas and so did I and so did we and we would always just go and spend it with them and yeah and um yeah she died that um she passed that uh same year and we in august they were planning on going down to lake powell and you know spreading some of her ashes around um lake powell like because that was her favorite place to be.
And so in August, they were planning on doing that. And I was like, I want to go. I want to be there for all my family because I know that all of the rest of my family, like my cousins, aunts, uncles, and all of them were all going.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does it feel like to have a stroke at 18 years old?
0:00–0:23
2
Can you be perfectly healthy and still have a stroke?
0:23–0:52
3
What are the earliest stroke symptoms most people ignore?
0:52–1:00
4
How do you know when something is seriously wrong with your body?
1:00–1:40
5
What happens during a stroke in real time?
1:40–1:49
6
Why is timing critical in a medical emergency like a stroke?
1:49–4:19
7
What is the recovery process like after a stroke at a young age?
4:19–12:52
8
What lessons can young people learn from Courtney's experience with a stroke?
12:52–1:54:21