one day before my stroke, I hit my gaming PUBG dream (a cautionary tale)

There’s nothing funny about a stroke, so no, it’s not a joke thread
you mustn't be aware of the op's posting history of late. while you are of course quite correct that a stroke is not even remotely funny, the rest of the post is. banging on about pubg 'chutes as if it was some amazing achievement that was worth wrecking ones life for - now that is bloody funny.
 
Had a stroke 2 years ago, at the age of 36. Caused by a vertebral artery dissection - Was in the critical room for 2 weeks.

Life hits hard, we are not all invincible. Make the most of it as you hear the old saying - Never know what's around the corner :D

You should be discharged with the aftercare from the stroke association, they are the real hero's. Will help massively on the road to recovery.

-FYI Was fit an healthy and regularly attended the gym. Had an outdoor job so was not confined to a screen all day.

- My job now is a desk job, cant be the same I once was.
 
Moral of the story?
don't stick with a long distance relationship, quit it and find someone closer, even if you have a child with them, ( I did,)
Along with this, if you are going to be glued to a PC, then take the time to walk around every now and then, to keep your blood from pooling in your legs, same with if you are doing any long distance driving, take stops, and walk around
definitely have your cholesterol checked too, and get on statins if you need them, when I was taken into hospital, they found my cholestrol was sky high, and immediately I was put on statins, along with blood thinners
while I was away, I did not get any better, losing the left hand side of my body, so I had to face that I was never going to play another computer game that needed my left hand!( I play chess now.)
But while I was away PUBG also introduced being able to use your parachute again, and again, base jump style, so I would have got a lot of use out of that skin, striking fear into other player's hearts out there
It just wasn't meant to be :-(

This isn't the moral which most readers are learning from this story.
 
Had a stroke 2 years ago, at the age of 36. Caused by a vertebral artery dissection - Was in the critical room for 2 weeks.

Life hits hard, we are not all invincible. Make the most of it as you hear the old saying - Never know what's around the corner :D

You should be discharged with the aftercare from the stroke association, they are the real hero's. Will help massively on the road to recovery.

-FYI Was fit an healthy and regularly attended the gym. Had an outdoor job so was not confined to a screen all day.

- My job now is a desk job, cant be the same I once was.
What was your level of recovery? Did you get use of all your limbs back? xx
 
What was your level of recovery? Did you get use of all your limbs back? xx
Very good, left arm still gives me grief but been youngish I made sure I did everything I could to get back to normal. Pushing myself to extreme in some cases. 2 steps back 1 forward and all that.

What you cant see is the huge mental impact. Thoughts it may happen again? Depression - and huge anxiety surrounding the stroke. Initially not going out for fear. Massive issues eating/swallowing food. Panic attacks of any little twitch you get the list goes on :D

I would be classed as disabled and have brain damage as the result - But I have a good employer and switched roles, in all honesty its given me a huge sense of life and made me a much better person.

All a good life experience!
 
You banged that nurse yet?
My carer? lol no, we are just friends,
she keeps updating me as to where in her cycle she is, and what is going on with her potential lovers,
It's all very confusing! definitely in the friend zone, but I'm not complaining, it is still a pleasure to see, and spend time with her., I don't really have many friends now, everyone is so busy with their own lives
it's ragic, really, I couldn't bone her even if she wanted to considering the state of my body..
If I were normal, I'd just take her dancing, and that would be that!
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What was your weight like and some other info aside from the game
I'd only recently had my annual check up in the november 2019 before the stroke! in january2020, weight was fine blood pressure was good, bmi was fine, waistline was fine, stopped smoking 3 months before the stroke too, but I used to be a heavy smoker prrior to stopping (cruel joke really,
bad cholerestol was mid to high, but I had really high good cholesterol which confused things somewhat, really I should have gone on statins for the middle/high bad choleresterol, it was all written down in a health mot booklet, which I've shown to some health professionals, who have all raised their eybrows as to why I was not put on statins after that
I was really ill between christmas and the stroke, which might have been an early case of covid, which increases the chance of blood clots, I'd never felt so ill before in my life
 
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@Threepwood I thought you had a wife at the time of the stroke?

Edit: Genuinely not trying to catch you out or anything there, I just recall you mentioning it around the time.
nope, we were not married, someone did, mention that they thought I had a wife be after one of my earlier threads, I'd said my GF left me after the stroke, and later hey said to someone else that my wife had left me, I didn't correct them at the time because it seemed a genuine mistake, and she meant almost as much to me as a wife tbh, I still tragically love her, getting over her is proving a real challenge because we were together for over 20 years albeit long distance for the majority of that
 
nope, we were not married, someone did, mention that they thought I had a wife be after one of my earlier threads, I'd said my GF left me after the stroke, and later hey said to someone else that my wife had left me, I didn't correct them at the time because it seemed a genuine mistake, and she meant almost as much to me as a wife tbh, I still tragically love her, getting over her is proving a real challenge because we were together for over 20 years albeit long distance for the majority of that

What’s all this about then?

I also recieved this letter, and so did my wife!

I do, and so does my wife! I mean and so do a lot of those research bodies.
 
What’s all this about then?
Both examples of me using the 'and so does/is my wife joke from the life of brian, read the context of me saying that with that joke in mind and it will make sense, I say' and so is my wife 'quite a lot, thinking that people will get the referene, same with 'I want to be a woman' but yeah the last time I said that here, the person said 'carry on being a normal person on the internet, so I just guess that people don't get the life of brian jokes!
 
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