My name is Gurajit or Guj, 48 years old, and I had my first diagnosed mini stroke on 24th May 2024. I say this is my first diagnosed mini stroke as I had a similar episode in April with my loss of balance and both eyes twisting but it only lasted a couple of minutes the first time. In May however it started at 5:30am and didn’t stop for a good 1.5-2 hours!
After going to the GP and then throwing up everything I ate on that morning I eventually ended up in Southampton Hospital A&E which diagnosed me having a mini stroke. I was kept in hospital for 1 week, with regular CT Scans which showed I had developed hydrocephalus which eventually contracted and I was discharged on Friday 31st May 2024. The first two days in hospital are still a blur and only around Tuesday/Wednesday I gained some sense of reality again. The hospital staff were amazing and we do realise actually how good the NHS really are providing so much care, support and encouragement!
I am very lucky in that I still have full use of all my body but just my left leg and arm get slightly more tired and my left eye twitches a bit more than normal.
I came home to my fantastic wife and two amazing children who have given me so much support and for the last two weeks have not let me do much apart from rest but also let me slowly build myself back up over time. I was very tired in the first week needing just a lot of rest but this has started to improve this week. I do still get very tired and the medications have been messing up my stomach a bit but my GP has been really good with brilliant advice and guidance about how to cope going forward.
I am not allowed to drive for this month and signed off from work for this month. Although I am positive this will come round, I do feel different and just want to let things go a bit more with taking things at a better pace and want to enjoy life with my family, my passions and value the precious time more. I do always live in the fear that this may happen again and hopefully with no worse outcomes but can only pray to waheguru (God) of this being my wake up call to change life for the better for us all.
I will continue to post more over this month and an taken aback by how much support is available on this forum and how many survivors are doing as well as possible. I hope to hear more from you all soon!