Stroke Identification

Came across this email and thought of posting it.......Identify stroke...perhaps..can save another life...PERHAPS.....
STROKE IDENTIFICATION:
During a BBQ, a friend stumbled and took a little fall - she = assured=20 everyone that she was fine. (they offered to call paramedics) She = said she=20 just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes. They got her = cleaned up=20 and got her a new plate of food - while she appeared a bit shaken = up, Ingrid=20 went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening. Ingrid's = husband called=20 later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital- = at=20 6:pm, Ingrid passed away. She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had = they=20 known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Ingrid would be = with us=20 today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition = instead.
It only takes a minute to read this...
A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within = 3 hours=20 he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said = the trick=20 was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the = patient=20 medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
RECOGNIZING A STROKE
Thank God for the sense to remember the "3" steps,
"S-T-R". Read and Learn! Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are=20 difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells = disaster.=20 The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby = fail to=20 recognize the symptoms of a stroke.
Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking = three=20 simple questions:
S *Ask the individual to SMILE.
T *Ask the person to TALK . to SPEAK A SIMPLE = SENTENCE
(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today)
R *Ask him or her to RAISE BOTH ARMS.
{NOTE: Another "sign" of a stroke is this: Ask the person to = "stick out"=20 their tongue..if the tongue is "crooked"; if it goes to one side or = the=20 other, that is also an indication of a stroke).
If he or she has trouble with ANY ONE of these tasks, = call 995=20 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher
A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this e-mail sends it to = 10=20 people, you can bet that at least one life will be saved.=20

30 DEC'06.....

Okay...As ah min hab instructed,updating my blog NOW...The 2nd last day of the year 2006..... Thinking of my new year's resolution for 2007...Have been thinking about resolutions for the past erm...18yrs?..and have never ever thought of anything..which means...not a single resolutions for the past 18years....Sad...Countown to my next birthday..My 19th birthday...Which is 23 1/2 days away..Birthdays to me are no longer special since i was erm..10??? Seems like the saying that as people grow up,birthdays become of no special meaning to them...My past 2 birthdays...17th & 18th...had been quite erm "sad"..can i say that?...Working on my birthday..Or worse...Not having the special someone to spend my birthday with..Thanks to him for not even realising it....And realising that my birthday falls on January only this month...Like thanks for asking "how do u wan me to celebrate ur birthday with u?"....Only to have me answering, "it's just like any other day anyway...And we'll talk abt it if only u r free.."...And thank you for that buay song look....Seriously..Can u think over it...I had hoped for u to even just remember my birthday..even a simple happy birthday msg is good enough to make me happy....Do u even realise that i no longer pin hopes on u...Love u or not is not the issue....The whole world knows i love u too much to let go unless U choose to let go....The issue now is...What do u even see me as?.... Haiz.....Whatever it is...i just hope that i wun have to cry during my next birthday....Oh...I do feel happy and i am touched that u brought me to Malaysia....But it's not like the first day u know me that i don't talk much and iu wun die not talking the whole day....To me..having ur company is good enough..to u...i don't know...Tink u went broke just bring me to malaysia...the nite at ur hm in JB..seriously..was quite alright..the bed was small..yes...but i am comfortable....jus dat m not like u...once u lie down u sleep..my habit of turning around woke u up dono how many times and i'm sorry for that...The few hours at Genting was erm...hmm....dono how to say....the bed is big..so big that i don feel safe...but i slept cuz i was too tired because....u know wad u did..........n i seriously hope it wun happen again anytime now....u r growing really thin and going to be much much smaller size thn me..plz...juz fatten up??For the sake of hw people will lokk at us and ur health...skipping meals just because u r busy r excuses.....no atter how busy u r...u have to eat....haix....


Went to MOS with yuxin and huiwen and her frens and STELLA!!!! The thought of her mkes me want to laugh...Hahas....Erm...hmm
though i went clubbing like only once before the one on the 27thDec...But i have never seen anyone wearing erm..Mickey mouse blouse,mickey mouse skirt,mickey mouse earrings and okay sneakers to club...Sneakers yes..but the rest? Oh my~~~ha ha... First time clubbing...Yes i know...but must she wear till like she's going to the..erm.library??? And..oh..she mde a big fuss just because some guy hit her butt she times...And i din even say anything even though some guy...whom i figure out is erm..not very tall...hugged me...and with his leg rubbing against me...Helo~~~U shld have expected that when u went in shldn't u..I tink it's no big deal...The whole night..i was her pole..YES,Stella's pole...As she "dirty danced"...which i tinkis not dirty at all and seriously failed to make me high...And i caught some guys behind her seeing what she did and wanted to laugh but tried not to...can tell they r trying hard to stop themselves from laughing...They were so busy trying to "squash" yu xin and her fren and they 2 guys behind both the gers...damn freking obvious..but i did nothing...no point trying to stop them from doing so and getting into trouble and be so anti-climax....haix..the whole night i was only shaking away..and unable to make myself high..which everyone ard me succeeded and i did not....shld have drunk more alcohol huh...i was god damn bored the whole nite...oh..and i heard from stella that some cuckoo guys that she ASSUME that they thought we were lesbians and took photos of us TWICE and were laughing..Erm...To that guy who took photos..If u really ASSUME as Stalla had ASSUME u to be ASSUMING that we ARE lesbians...Plz find a wall and bang urself against it.... Even if i were a lesbian..Stella will NEVER be my type....NEVER as in N-E-V-
E-R...Geddit......god.. Sch statin gon wedesday...there goes my holiday..heng still gt go m'sai wib him...my trip to m'sia wib my own family was canceled thanks to the flood....rah~hope the monsoon season goes by fats....and stop flooding people's homes for goodness sake...........NUF SAID......

la la la~

Hmm....Sian ah~~~Finally gt my pay le.....$300 plus nia... damn sian la..haix..to tink i hab to still rely on him..my atm cum my dono-ex-or-present-bf..... Though he say he don mind...but i still tink he does....and i tink i'll nid to pay him back for the rest of my life...hmm..stuck with the same OLD guy for 2 years....And i still don really understand apart from his "horrible temper" from what he rest told me abt... Was damn sad on Saturday...Wasn't really happy with my sis-in-law....feel damn stressed la... She's the type who will juz nag at alomost every little thing she don like.... Was folding clothes that particular day and was nearing lunch..And she told me to eat lunch and all i answered was a simple and soft.. "mmm"...I admit i was slow...but i don't rmb giving her a face~~sriously if she's unhappy with my looks~~i'm so sorry..there's nothing i can do since my mum bore me with this kind of face..what u wan me to do?go under the knife? nd all my bro did was just to get a chair for me from the kitchen and do u have to ask him "why must u take for her?"..For goodness sake la.... i'm his sister leh...help me take cnt meh??I bear with her very long le leh...i must really say that i "admire" my bro for being able to tolerate her.... Bro...seriously..i also stress de leh....Not i don wan to help u..I tried to avoid dong things which she don like le...And i even stop talking to her unless necessary liao..what u wan me to do?...I was brought up in a life totlly different from hers and u know that very well since u were brought up the same way...U said that u know my temper is not good either....so can't u even tell that i'm already trying to avoid having disputes with her...It does hurt me when i c u 2 arguing because of me...Do u tink i feel good?I really don't lo....Dat very saturday my mum went to play majhong...and my dad sent her to the place..before she went out, she told me to go out if i want to...and my dad too...said the same thing to me after he came back after sending my mum to her khakis...After all, it's still my parents who know me best....Taking a breather outside the whole day is better den cooping myself up in the house with her after the incident in the morning.... Seriously i didn't feel good... i spent the whole morning crying silently....forced myself not to cry..but my tears didn't seem to listen to me...Took my bath and out i go...took an hours bus to vivo... had wanted to look for my atm...saw him..but he was busy....had told him earlier on that i would be looking for him...or rather..juz take a look at him... he was quite busy... haix..had needed a shoulder and a pair of ears....but apparently i'll never get what i need....and i ended up rotting at vivo for 3 hrs..at the same time hunting for gifts for my 2 little monsters...and ended up not even talking to him...the only thing he said was.."eh...wait har.."...couldn't really wait any longer...so juz walked out of tangs and msg him and said bye...For the 2 yrs that i've known him, he had never returned a call so fast...and i meant NEVER... Brian lim...seriously....sometimes i really don understand him...sometimes u r so cold and sometimes u can be so concerned all of a sudden...that nite when i said i was okay...i lied...i wasn't...i needed a shoulder so much that all i could rely on was the wall...sad huh.... i realised that whenever i am down, no one will ever be there for me...just like this blog....perhaps only a few people..who MAY care or just came in to look for the sake of looking.... i realised i am so pathetic...i can be so extra in a group at time tht people take a long time to realise that i am there.... Used to like to socilise with people..but not anymore... the much more autistic part of me has resurfaced... i sometimes envy people who have at least 1 or 2 very close frens who share their happiness and woes and are so happy... Do i have close friends?I did....Friends make other friends too...have other commitments..bfs...family....studies..whatever.... Sometimes a lack of communiction causes a breakdown in a relationship...and that applies to friendship too....When friends find that they no longer have something in common or rather something to talk about...the bond just like in BGR dies off.... I don't blame anyone for me ending up so pathetic...i can only blame myself....blame my personality....Some people who saw my blog posts would ask me..y are some of ur posts so pathetic...u exaggerate la....seriously..i did not... i nedded space to pour out my heart...i couldn't express myself in words verbally..all i could do was to type it down...and relief myself....or sooner or later..i may go nuts bottling up my feelings...


Looking forward to spending my X'mas in Malaysia...that's my only holiday in this holiday since i'm working like from Mondays to Fridays...Office hours....which is so like school....gonna go to bed~~



NUF SAID

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So very the sian in class now...Having Maths tody..rAh...as usual..don understand a thing and not doing anything...
And not that i don wan to do nothing it's just that i really dono how to do... Sian...Tml last day of sch.Damn sian... Cognitive..Definitly not coming to school tml..heard its quite hard...Wednesday starting work at
JTC... Winx club kicked me out of paragon for dono wad stupid reason...Heng still gt another job lobang.. If not holiday month stay at hm and rot...Hope dat JTC wun b a bad place to survive..But for the sake of my 6.50 an hr... Bite my tongue and bear with everything...Last saturday amazing race was...erm,....Tirig..Can't think of a more suitable word to describe..I crawled my way home dat nite..and seriously if any organiser of the mazing race from Cyrvia Club sees this post..Plz feedback dat if u guys were to ever organize another one...Decrease the number of stations...13 stations is like..duh~~ So much for biting the "unpeeeled" sugarcane till i tink i bleed... and digging the sand at sembawang beach and find the letters to form a team mates name in FULL...Den to Lower seletar reservoir and i touched frog's pee and shit and for goodness sake couldn't u guys have removed the dead frogs frm the container...I don mind the pee and shit but dead frogs...Eww...The very last stop we went to was East Coast Park hich is like so god damn out of the way from my house...Before the last stop was Kallang..Though didn't complete ll the stations, but i was farking tired..All these just for 2NDA points..Freak sia..Y the school nid us to fulfil 40 pts in all to graduate wan....Rah~~€ Last thurday culture went to Fullerton hotel...Shall upload some pics...LATER....hee..I'm crazy...