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A STROKE OF INNOVATION?

November 03’2007 Letter to STROKE CONNECTION MAGAZINE Dear People at Stroke Connection, Below is my story, I hope you and maybe your readers find it interesting. AN INVENTION WAS CREATED AS A RESULT OF A STROKE ________________________________________________________________________ On New Years Eve 2001 my family and I were preparing to receive 2002, I almost did not make it, I had a hemorrhagic stroke, my memory is that I thought it was a heart attack because of the pain I felt on my left arm and left side of my chest but mainly I remember a subtle sadness (as I was falling) and thinking this is it? No warning, no nothing? (Like when you step on an ant and she is dead just like that) but I asked God to save me and here I am typing this 6 years later. When taken to the hospital they discovered also a brain tumor about the size of a golf ball in my brain, the Doctors decided to operate immediately and since I was conscious I signed some papers and they prepared me for the op