Of course I’m not having a stroke, I wanted to tell him. Strokes are for the elderly, for smokers, for overweight couch potatoes.  I’m forty-eight years old, fit and perfectly healthy. I was so sure stroke couldn’t happen to me that I didn’t believe the paramedics; I doubted the neurologist in the ER.

This month, learn the facts about stroke: it is common, brutal, and affects all age groups. It can happen to you or someone you love; it can be prevented.