It's a good feeling to go from EMS paramedics to ER as a patient, get diagnosed, discover the reason, then begin the long road to recovery as a survivor. Some stroke patients don't make it to survivor status.

The 911 clerks and EMS personnel handle so many calls and trips to the ER, until I can understand them being routine status as we see it. I was like you, scared to death. I was passed out 4 hours before I arrived in the ER with a brain bleed.

A.J.,

Welcome to our blog community. We really get to know each other well, back here out of sight from the main Strokenet membership. My husband's story---those first few days of not recognizing the onset of a stroke---is similar to yours so far.

Jean