Posted by Arthur Capelle on 5/19/07

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My Father inlaw suffered a stroke on March 12, 2007. The
only indication was a loss of words from time to time. On
March 14 he went to hospital to be checked out. The
doctors interviewed him and ran tests. A catscan was
completed first and from that they assumed he had a
stroke. My father inlaw is clostraphobic and refused a
closed MRI and an open one was not available. Everyday my
father-inlaw became worse, he vocabulary, then his right
hand became numb.Finally on March 19 he agreed to an MRI
and was sadated to remain calm. After waking up from the
MRI a nurse tried to bring him to the bathroom but he was
unable to walk on his own. 3 nurses carried him to the
bathroom. The next day the doctor called for an angeogram
to locate the blockage in the carroded artery.

I want to know why the doctors waited 5 days to do the
angeogram, why wasn't it done the first day he was in.
If it was and they found the blockage and made the repair
preventing him to be right side paralysed.

Can someone respond to this and advise.

Stroke, 5/19/07, by Arthur Capelle.

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