Tired. I must have been tired, but did not know how tired.... Today, the hospital hosted a screening for student (teen) athletes to look for heart (cardiac) problems. I would bet that everyone knows, or knows of, a youth who simply 'dropped dead' from heart problems on the ..... football field, basketball court, baseball diamond..... from cardiac trouble. These kids are the reason Automated Electrical Defibrillators were invented and have been so promoted, although these AED's also are effective in other people.
In any case, I was manning the Stroke Booth..... did you know that the youth (and their parents) make a wide berth for a Stroke Booth, although, I will give them, they were very gracious when I approached them with the literature.
And when I was finished telling them that children were also at risk, they were much more attentive and asking questions. To a man, every teen was surprised by the information. One gentleman told me he had had three strokes. I told him he likely knew as much as did I about strokes, but he still wanted the literature.
May is National Stroke Month. I will be so busy..... but that is a subject for another day.
I came home, fell asleep on the sofa, and slept for 4 *yes, 4* hours. I must have been tired.
Well....... No good deed goes unpunished.
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