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seriously folks, any big fat Texan who gets knocked out cold should have brain scanned for stroke.
have a good friend who smoked a lot, and a TIA, went very weird while sitting in bed with his girlfriend.
Brain scan showed he had already suffered several symptomless TIAs. Doc wouldn't let him go home due to high BP (250), had to get his high BP down, stop smoking, cut back on the evening beers.
Another architect/builder built an $800K home on the Maine coast in the Belfast area "on the come" (no buyer), got hit by the housing bubble burst, got wiped out/bankrupt with construction loans, started drinking (emulating his long-dead father's example).
When he finally went cold turkey, got up one night, passed out, fell very hard, shattered his right shoulder socket, broke the ball of the humerus, spent 10 days in ICU in an induced coma. Shoulder xray looks like a pin cushion now it has so many screws, and of course he lost full range of movement, plus muscular atrophy. brain scan showed a lot of iron (from the blood), in his brain, permanently, so it was a hemorrhagic stroke. lucky he can still walk, work, speak, but I sense maybe some personality changes.
Like America itself and as Pogo famously said, we are own worst enemy (lifestyle disease).
