Love Is: Why Luke Perry’s Death Disturbs A Generation
Have you ever had the experience of going five, ten, maybe even 20 years and not given a single thought to something, only to find that when it pops up on your radar again, it repetitively re-enters...
View ArticleStroke awareness arrived early this year
On the evening of February 13, 2019, I awoke from a deep sleep and could not feel or move my entire right leg. I recognized that it belonged to me, but when my brain would command it to move, nothing...
View Article“Puckett Will Park It”: Reflecting on Stroke In Young People During the World...
I was born in Houston, Texas, and have fond memories of going to the Astrodome in the 1980s with my grandfather to watch the Astros play baseball. They knew that orange was the new black way before...
View ArticleFear accompanies loss of control, in Covid-19 and in stroke
In 2012, I walked through a cemetery in Cashion, Oklahoma, eager to find the final resting places of my grandmother’s seven siblings and many other long since departed ancestors and relatives. My...
View ArticleStroke emerging as complication of Covid-19
On April 28, 2020, a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine describing blood clots in large arteries supplying the brain (known as “large-vessel strokes”) in young patients testing...
View ArticleMore evidence that Covid-19 is a disease of clotting
A paper appeared yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, adding to the growing body of evidence that clotting is a prominent feature in Covid-19, even if it isn’t always evident. People who...
View ArticleFinally! A randomized clinical trial evaluating treatments for cerebral...
When the topic of stroke is being discussed, for the most part it is the concept of “blockages” developing within in the arteries of the brain – that is, the blood vessels that are carrying...
View ArticleI Am A Doctor On The Internet, and I Am Covid-19 Vaccinated
Recently, it hit me. I’m a doctor. And I’m “on the internet.” But I don’t have a YouTube channel. Well, I technically do, but the only videos I have posted are of my cat, and of my daughter doing an...
View ArticleEarly morning thoughts about cerebellar stroke patients
I awoke to the sound of my 13 month old son on the baby monitor at 3:01AM today. His nickname is Baby Shark, and therefor the baby monitor is known as the “Shark Cam” in our house. And as happens with...
View ArticleSenator Ben Ray Lujan suffers cerebellar stroke
This morning I awakened to the news that a US Senator from New Mexico, Ben Ray Lujan, had sustained a stroke in his cerebellum last week, diagnosed after he presented to the University of New Mexico...
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