It was like a scene from a Michael Bay movie.
Krista Figari woke up in her apartment in Manhattan and made her bed as she did every morning – then the disaster hit.
“When I came back after making my bed, I just fell to my closet and fell to the floor,” Figari, 39, told the post. “Then I couldn’t move my arm and leg. And at that moment, I was like, that’s weird.”
Figar could not get up, but she could reach her phone. She phoned her cousin, who lives close, then super and 911.
Her super did not have a key to the upper block of her front door, which made Figar very nervous because she knew something was really wrong.
Then, finally, a progress – super realized that he could reach Figar’s place by escaping from the fire. He meticulously pulled through her window and left the emergency reactors so that they should not ruin her door.
At the Newy York-Preresbyterian/Weill Cornell medical center, the Bronx teacher learned that she had experienced a waking blow.
“It was definitely scary,” Figari said. “When they said” stroke “, it didn’t even record for me. I bind a blow with someone who is old, so that was the last thing I ever thought it would be.”
It’s been almost a year since Figari had its changing life. She is sharing her story – and her mother’s images that captured the annoying episode – in the hope of inspiring awareness of the symptoms of the stroke as they are becoming more common among people under 50.
Within the waking strokes
One in four adults over the age of 25 is expected to have a stroke in one point.
There are two main types of stroke in the brain – ischemic and hemorrhagic.
Ischemic, which accounts for about 87% of all strokes, occurs when a blood clot or other blockage restricts blood flow to the brain. Approximately 20% of ischemic shocks are waking strokes.
The determining feature of a waking blow is that the shock time is not known. Symptoms are detected as the patient wakes up.
At the hospital, Figari’s medical team determined that its blow had “happened many recently”. It was given medicines to disperse clots, which are known as thrombolysis.
“In Nyp-Wc we are very lucky to have resources and infrastructure to get [an] Emergency MRI to try and help these patients who would otherwise not be eligible for treatment, ”said Dr. Nicholas Janocko, a neurologist who treated Figari for the post.
“Had he not coming to the hospital in time, or had gone elsewhere without these skills,” Janocko continued, “she may not have been treated with thrombosis and would have lived with disabilities and left paralysis.”
Medicine helped restore its movement in under 15 minutes. The good news is that she did not require physical, professional or speaking therapy after her stay in a five-day hospital.
Doctors surrendered the bad news – Figari had a common congenital heart condition called the foramen oval (PFO) patent, which is when a hole between the upper rooms of the heart stays open after birth.
As a hole in the heart raises the risk of stroke
About 25% of adults have PFO. Like most people with him, Figar had no symptoms.
“I was actually a very active kid, I played every sport. I danced,” Figari recalled. “I had asthma, but that was it.”
PFO is thought to have a causal role in 55% of strokes in patients younger than 60, Janocko said.
The opening allows clots to bypass the lungs and travel to the brain, potentially causing a stroke.
Figari had a particularly large PFO, a 4 grade on a scale of 0 to 5.
She briefly returned to NYP-WC in July to undergo a minimal invasive procedure to close the hole. A small device was placed in her heart, so no clot could pass.
It is a permanent memory of its traumatic incident. Now, a year later, it is back to Pilates and Orangeeryory Fitness – almost with full strength. She has little weakness on her left side.
“When I write or when I’m pressing or when I’m working out, when I’m doing things where I have to be dominant on my left side, it’s weaker and much harder for me to do,” Figari explained.
It takes aspirin to prevent a later stroke and has designed a plan in the event of another medical emergency. More people close to her have keys for her apartment.
She now knows the importance of rapid action if symptoms appear – and encourages others to move quickly.
“If you feel like something is wrong, then believe in your gut and make sure to control it,” Figari advised. “Or call someone and notify someone because if you don’t do something quickly for them, then you can have long -term effects.”
Symptoms of stroke in the brain to know
While stroke is often associated with the elderly, shock to adults younger than 50 make up about 10% to 15% of cases.
“The incidence and the spread of shock in young are increasing over time, mainly due to an increase in vascular risk factors such as overweight, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, sleep apnea and tobacco use,” Janocko said.
Experts recommend acronying “be quick” to recognize the signs of shock.
B is “balance”. Is the person fighting suddenly with balance or coordination?
E is “eyes”. Is there a blurred or double vision or a sudden loss of vision in one or both eyes painless?
F is “Face Falling”. Does one side of the face fall or feel numb when you smile?
Is it “arm weakness”. When the person raises both arms, does one arm move down? Is it a weak or numb arm?
S is “difficulty speaking”. When a person repeats a slight sentence, are they easy to understand or their speech reduced?
T is “time to call 911.” Go to the hospital if you notice any of these symptoms.
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