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Re:After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece... by Question1101 on Sunday February 12, 2017 @11:34AM (#13629060)
>Days later, she learned she'd had a stroke

Don't you have to get to the ER within hours when you have a stroke?

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Re:After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece... by shagie on Sunday February 12, 2017 @12:08PM (#13629251)
One might. And its not inconsistent with the sentence. There could be several days of disorientation prior to being able to form the memory that they had a stroke a few days ago.

Tangentially related, https://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_strok... is about a brain scientist who had a massive stroke and she talks of both the shutting down of the brain along with the starting it up again.

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