u/Dutchfire83

When I was 12 my vision started to look like I was looking through a cat toy. (That’s the best way I can put it.) I was in PE and asked my friend if I could hold onto her shoulder so I could get to my clothes. I got to my next class and my vision got worse. I asked my teacher if I could go to the nurses office. Once I got there half of my body went numb and I couldn’t talk, but my parents had me wear a medical identification bracket and I just pointed to that when she asked me my name. After that is hard to remember except for bits and pieces. I remember the nurse telling me to stay awake, then my mom stopping at home to get my medical card, then being in the ER and having someone shine a light in my eye and throwing up right after that. I woke up a hospital bed and the doctors had already done blood tests and that sort of thing, but they messed them up and took other blood tests. They told my parents they couldn’t see what was wrong with me. Shoot to when I was 36 and woke up at a hospital after having a stroke. I don’t remember the second one, I hit my head on our coffee table when it happened and was unconscious until I woke up the next day in the hospital. I found out later that my husband got a call from our kids school saying that I hadn’t picked up our kids from school (I was always early and volunteered at the school) so he came home to me on the floor and knocked out because I hit my head.i had a lot of actual testing done and was told I had a stroke.

So looking at the symptoms of a stroke and going back to when I was twelve, the symptoms match. I just tested to the extent that I was when I was 36. I also found out I have a protein c deficiency then too.

I’m not sure what to think about it. Looking back everything points to a stroke that was ignored because of my age. I could use some thoughts on this.

My title explains most of it. We moved to a new state for an upgrade for my husbands’ job. I had my stroke in October 2019, and I could barely remember my name, I had to relearn how to read period. So I started losing friends because I couldn’t read what they sent me. My speech and cognitive therapist pulled it a picture of a key and asked me what it was. I tools her “safety measures” I heard later on that she liked at the key again Anne said “well, you aren’t wrong. Even after all of the recovery from my stone describing what a weird means is the way I can get what I’m trying to say understood. I’m lucky, my husband knows what I’m trying to say and my kids do too, even though I feel stupid with describing what the word means instead of remembering the actual quotes. That app answer for me, but they go off my discretion of the word instead of me actually saying the quotes.

Anyway, I moved to a new state with my family and there have been no opportunities for me to meet new people. The times I have tried, I ended up having a seizure and was ghosted sitter. I’m happy with my family, but I’m lonely everywhere else. I’m at the point now where I can “write” now understandably, but in person I break down sale go back to when I first had my stroke and able to communicate with anyone besides people who are a constant.

Has anyone else gone through that?

Long story short, I moved to a new state and haven’t made any friends because in a stay at home mom because of medical issues and can’t drive, but the rest of my family has made friends with what they are doing. Now I’m lonely and depressed.