I had a normal conversation, turned to speak to the other character, and lost the ability to speak, which was very confusing and quite perturbing. I was attending a one-day conference, a technical conference, and during the morning session thought that I needed to speak to a couple of characters who’d presented papers, so at a coffee break approached one of them. My incident occurred during a conference. And she came and knelt by the side of my chair and asked me what was the matter. I think I asked Shirley for help although I don’t really know I can’t really remember that. And I just didn’t know what was going on. And I couldn’t make any sense of anything.
And it’s so real, it’s unbelievable how it’s coming back. And when I tried to catch the words, they squeezed out from between my fingers. But discovered that the words that I wanted were floating around, well to my mind they were floating around in a very large bubble. And I think Shirley asked me a question and I tried to answer the question. He’d been with us for 14 years so of course both Shirley and I were extremely upset. Well it, it all began one April morning on … well it was a Monday and we’d just completed the very upsetting job of burying our old dog. I think this is called perception and it had just disintegrated. But if I wasn’t looking at my hand, I really wasn’t too sure where it was. If I looked at my hand, I could easily pick up my coffee and I could put it down again. But I did have a problem with holding things, not holding things, but if, normally when you close your eyes, you can shut your eyes and you can put your finger more or less on your nose, like so. And also I thought, “Well, I just slept on it”, right? And I sat up and had a cup of tea and it was already starting to fade away, the symptoms were vanishing. But suddenly I realised how heavy my arm was. You just don’t realise as you move your arm around that it’s heavy. Normally you’re, you completely compensate for the fact that your arm has weight. And then I realised that I could feel the weight of my arm. A little bit of numbness and tingling in my fingers. It was early last year, eighteen months ago, and when I woke up in the morning, my left hand, it felt a bit odd. TIA and Minor Stroke Symptoms of transient ischaemic attack (TIA) Messages for others about transient ischaemic attack (TIA).
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