20240420 : stroke surveys...
I keep getting a lot of stroke surveys to fill up from time to time. I fill these religiously and provide the information the survey asks for. I fill them genuinely as I don't know what it is going to be used for generally. Do you know the biggest underlying problem I find in all of them (I have not come across an exception till date). They all assume a stroke is a stroke is a stroke.. surely, we can draw conclusions with generalized assumptions. Unfortunately, a stroke is not a stroke is not a stroke. If we get a headache, stomach ache or any other illnesses/ diseases they somehow can be generalized and we can understand the symptoms, causes and consequences thus having generalized treatments and care. However, the only thing common for every stroke is that the root cause was deprivation of oxygen to the brain cells causing the cells to either weaken or die. Where the stroke happened in the brain, for how long, how much impact did it cause and to what functions, the age of th