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    The Third Precursor: An Enormous Headache | The Tales of a Stroke Patient | Joyce Hoffman

    By Joyce Hoffman | on April 10, 2012
    Posted in: The Tales of a Stroke Patient

    [Editor's note: This article is second in the series, The Tales of a Stroke Patient. You can access the other articles here.]

    I was still thinking, a week later, of the nurse who told me about her infant sister who had a stroke. There was something about that story.

    Anyway, I made it through the weekend, continuing with the Lovenox. The headache would come shortly.

    It was Monday, April 6. I worked all day Monday with some pain still in my legs, training the new people who came to the firm, and worked on Tuesday as well. I wanted to save my days for a vacation, a vacation that would never come.

    Tuesday evening, when I was ready to leave work, my manager wanted to know if I could stop by and have dinner with the Information Services people from the Applications group. Applications was planning an upgrade and there was so much food, she said. Read more…