Chapter 1: What does it feel like to have a stroke at 18 years old?
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Chapter 2: 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.
Chapter 3: 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.
Chapter 4: 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.
Chapter 5: 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.
Chapter 6: 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.
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Chapter 7: 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. My mom and my I wasn't going because my sister was actually getting married.
Two weeks after that trip or even after that trip when it was done, it would be like a week until her wedding. So they're just planning on staying back. And my brothers had sports that was going on during that time. So they didn't like end up going either. So I was just the only one that was able to go with like for my family. Like I was just the one to be able to, you know, go for us.
And I was glad and like, I was able to go because I love like PAL and I love like all the things that you get to do there. Like boat, like a water ski, water, a wakeboard, wake surf and tubing. I just... Loved all of it. I loved doing all the things that you get to do down in Lake Powell.
And when you get to spend time with family too, that is a really special thing for me to be there with family. Because my grandma was coming and my grandma and grandpa were coming for a couple of days for the spreading of the virus.
her ashes and because obviously that was her sister and so she came came down she she was well she's she's still old but she was very old at the time so being outside all the time wasn't was no air conditioning wasn't like you know yeah a lot for her and then um but she really wanted to be there for her sister and um i i to this day, I still very much admire my grandma for that.
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Chapter 8: What lessons can young people learn from Courtney's experience with a stroke?
You should, you know, spend time with like your, the rest of your family, like rest of the family. Cause we don't get together that often at that time.
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So she was like, yeah, I'd like to be there for our family and you only have two more days left and then you can just come home. But if the sickness continues, then obviously you can come home. I don't want to push you, but I think you only have two more days left and you might feel better by the closest end of the day. You never know. And so I just thought like,
yeah, I only have two more days and I love being at Lake Powell and I get to do all the things. And so I just thought, yeah, I can just tough it out. And at this time, it was like 10 a.m. in the morning, like something like that, like 10, 11 a.m. And I was like, yeah, I'll just stay. And so we drop off my grandparents. And at that time, it was just me, my aunt, my uncle,
My aunt, my mom's sister, my uncle and my two cousins, Jordan and Scott. And we were just thinking, oh, like, what should we do? Should we like, you know, two? Should we like wake surf? Like, what should we do? And... we heard that the other boat that had some of my other family on it, that we're using that boat to wake surf. And so we're like, oh, like we should be the tubing boat.
So if like anyone wants the tube, they can like leave off of that boat to come over here. If you want to wake surf, you can go on to that other boat and we can just switch off. whichever one you wanna do. And so we were just thinking, oh yeah, we can do that. And we're down for tubing. And I remember thinking, I'll be tubing with people who are much older than me.
They're boys and they like to go fast. And I was like, I like to go fast too. And so I was like, I tell my aunt and uncle, I was just like, you don't have to slow down. Just for me, I like to... I can keep up. Yeah, I can keep up with them. You don't have to worry about me and I'll be fine. And they're just like... Okay, we won't do that. We will just go.
And then if it's not too much for you, you can just say, don't do that. You can slow it down. And so I was like, okay. And so we start getting the tube out and then you setting it up and we start starting to tube. And then I remember we were going and we had this like a wipe, like a pretty big wipe out and where we're like all like laughing, you know? Like, wow, that was like so crazy.
Like, I was just so insane. Like... That's just what we were thinking. We were like, oh, that was so fun, even though we wiped out. But, you know, it was still fun to me. And so we had two tubes. One had my cousin Jordan on it, and then one of them had me and my cousin Scott on it. And then we would just jump from tube to tube, like going, you know. Doing your thing.
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