Vim & Vigor - Summer 2012 - University of Virginia - (Page 21)
BY AMY LYNN SMITH
TAKE AIM
After a ministroke, these 7 steps can help keep your health on target
aurie Giles knew something was wrong. In fact, she admits she knew instinctively she was having some kind of stroke. But she didn’t want to admit it to herself. “I felt completely out of sorts, very dazed and disoriented,” says Giles, whose attack happened about five years ago at age 45. “But I kept telling myself it was just stress or something and kept on going.” She even drove to her parents’ house about two miles away, where her father said, “What’s wrong with your face? Part of it’s drooping.”
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