If you think someone may be having a stroke act FAST: Ask three simple questions, then call 9-1-1. Remember Face Arms Speech Time

Women often experience stroke symptoms different from men. Do you know what they are? Recognizing stroke symptoms and calling for help could save your life.

When I feel the sniffles coming on, I always reach for some extra vitamin C. And as an autoimmune patient with Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) I know to get plenty of rest. But until a few years ago, I’d never thought about Vitamin D.

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.