How frustrating that they wouldn't listen to your wife.   I think there are a lot of us that are left wondering, if things had went differently (medically speaking), would we be sooooo much better off today.    At any rate, we now find ourselves living a whole different life than what we ever dreamed.   That's the bad news.    The good news, we are still here!    It was my husband that had a stroke, a severe one, that robbed him of just about everything.   And yet, 3 years later, here we still are, and we laugh, and watch tv together, and live our lives together.   We have a 'new normal'.  

Bob also displayed a-fib in the emergency room, but they couldn't tell whether he really had it as a regular thing, or whether he was in it BECAUSE of the stroke.   He did wear a heart monitor for 30 days, and they did not see a re-occurence.  

So many strokes, all with a different unbelievable story.    Most can't really point to anything that caused it, it was just a fluke.   My husband had worked out before going into work that morning.  He had just been in France, as a global executive, the week before.    His job took him all over the world, and on the weekends while he was in another country, he'd hike, do zip lines, and climb things.   I'd never believed it could happen to HIM.   But it did.   I learned that strokes are like car wrecks.   Sure, if you drunk drive your chances of being in a car wreck go way up.   But that doesn't mean that you won't be in a car wreck if you don't drink.   Strokes can hit anyone at anytime, even children.   

Glad to see your blog, it's a good thing to journal.    Later, it will be hard to remember the order of how things happened and your improvements.   Which reminds me, you didn't mention what your stroke leftovers are?    Bob lost all right side, but can now walk short distances with a gait belt, as his balance is off.  He lost all sight from his nose toward the right side.    He has aphasia (speech problems) and some cognitive loss.    He can usually follow a one line command, but not always.  

Oddly, many people who were horrified at what happened to Bob, are dead now, but he is still alive, and we are happy.   My husband could have just dropped dead, but I still have him, and we are happy.

Welcome to the Blog Community I am a former caregiver now a widow after looking after my husband for 13 years full time.  He had many strokes, they simply couldn't stop them.  Also A-fib, fits, seizures and TIAs but as he survived till he was 70 from the first stroke aged 48 he had a long life really. And for the most part it was a good life.

As Sandy said journaling is good and allows you to see your progress and how life can change for the better.  Even after stroke.