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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m confused why you’re saying it could be because of plaque build up. That’s my entire point. She just had a full cardio work up. Anyway, I just don’t understand what caused the stroke. And yes, I know, old age, etc. But it makes me wonder why we bothered dragging her to these stressful appointments when they don’t seem to mean much anyway [/quote]

You may never know.  Perfectly healthy people in their 20s and 30s have strokes.  Could have been a clot.  Could have been something that burst.   It's tough not to have answers.  Your parent could have gotten a clean bill of health weeks ago and it just so happened that they were coming down with something, over expected themselves, or any number of things and their blood pressure spiked jussstttt enough to burst the fragile vessel in their brain.

As for the dragging them to appts, yeah in some cases it's not worth it.  My grandmother, at 82, decided it wasn't worth it to start up with the annoyance of all the appts when Covid restrictions were lifted.  Her feeling was a new diagnosis wasn't going to matter.  If she got diagnosed with heart failure, she wasn't going to restrict her fluids and sodium intake to maybe extend her life for a couple years.  If she had cancer, she wasn't going to put herself through chemo or surgery or radiation. N[/quote]

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