It’s The anniversary of the day I had a stroke for no reason so let’s celebrate with this real bus ad
“Milllenials! They say you can’t have it all. Well we’re here to say you can. You can have a stroke!”
Image description: the sign additionally says:
Learn the signs:
- F - Facial drooping?
- A - Arm weakness?
- S - Slurred speech?
- T - Time to call 9-1-1. With stroke, every second counts. Take the signs seriously. And, eat something; you're skin and bones!
The first letter in each word of the list is highlighted and spells out FAST - the acronym that helps you to remember the signs of a stroke.
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Reminder to call emergency services for your specific country, not 9-1-1, if you live outside of the US!
addendum to image description: it's by Minnesota Stroke Association, StrokeMN dot org
thank you both!! Transcription of words from an image is a almost impossible for me now bc I can’t type on a keyboard without autocorrect and my working.memory is crap bc of the stroke so it all gets jumbled. I am very happy when people take the time to caption stuff I post ❤️❤️
Appreciate people reblogging this without the misinformation about smelling burnt toast (it’s not a stroke symptom!)
The burnt toast thing becoming associated with strokes is likely because of someone over the last ninety years mistaking seizures for strokes while retelling a story, and that just getting recycled until it became 'common knowledge'
In the 30s, one woman used to smell burning toast moments before she would have a seizure. A doctor performed conscious brain surgery on her to stimulate different parts of her brain to find the source. Since most of his patients' seizures were the result of scar tissue or other damage within the brain itself, I guess maybe people just assumed that was strokes?
That's not to say that smelling burnt toast means you're going to have a seizure! For her, it was because the source of her seizures was (I think) scarring on the part of the brain that controls the sense of smell and every time she had a seizure her neurological wires got crossed. If you smell burnt toast, go check your toaster.