Leigh-Anne Weiss, Pennsylvania
At the age of 34, I experienced a stroke. It was January 21, 2009 and I had the day off work and was excited to be watching the Presidential inauguration on TV. I was on the phone with my husband when I started having difficulty. I was trying to pick up a pen from my desk and just couldn’t make my hand work. Suddenly my speech became strange and slurred. I remember saying "I can't find my words" and becoming increasingly agitated. Luckily my husband David recognized that something was terribly wrong…that I wasn’t just “stressed out”!
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