A Stroke of Luck

You get what you resist

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If you’d asked me three years ago to name my greatest fear, medically speaking, a stroke would have gushed from my mouth as if propelled from a broken fire hydrant.

Of all the ills that can befall a body, a cerebral vascular ischemic event, commonly known as a stroke, loomed as the one cruel act of nature that frightened me more than a heart attack, cancer, or the heartbreak of…