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The Lucknow Sentinel, 2015-08-26, Page 44 Lucknow Sentinel • Wednesday, August 26, 2015 I I 1 www.lucknowsentinel.com The Lucknow Sentinel PUBLISHED WEEKLY P.O. Box 400, 619 Campbell Street Lucknow Ontario NOG 2H0 phone: 519-528-2822 fax: 519-528-3529 www.lucknowsentinel.com [p] POSTMEDIA JOHN BAUMAN Advertising Director john. bauman@sun media.ca VALERIE GILLIES Editor valerie.gillies@sunmedia.ca lucknow.editorial@sunmedia.ca JILLIAN UNDERWOOD Sales representative jillian.underwood@sunmedia.ca JOY JURJENS Office Administrator lucknow.sentinel@sunmedia.ca MARIE DAVID Group Advertising Director 519 376-2250 ext. 514301 or 510 364-2001 ext. 531024 Publications Mail Agreement No. 40064683 RETURN UNDELIVERABLE CANADIAN ADDRESSES TO SENTINEL CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT P.O. 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The Sentinel is available on microfilm at: GODERICH LIBRARY, (from 1875) 52 Montreal Street Goderich ON N7A 1 M3 Goderichlibrary@huroncounty.ca KINCARDINE LIBRARY, (from 1875 to 1900 & 1935 to 1959) 727 Queen Street Kincardine ON N2Z 1Z9 We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canadian Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities. Canada / pcna Member of the Canadian Community Newspaper Association and the Ontario Community Newspapers Association Know the signs of a stroke My family got quite the scare on Fri- day, August 21. My son suffered a stroke at work in Hamilton in the early morning. He posted his experience on Facebook and urges everyone to learn the early warning signs. Fol- lowing are the words of my son, Gregory McNeish. This morning, shortly after 5am, I suffered a stroke. Thanks to the quick -thinking of my cow- orkers, and the world-class cardiac care at Hamilton General Hospital, it was caught in time, and I have no lingering symptoms, physical or cognitive. I'll be in hospital for the next 4 or 5 days, while they monitor my recovery, and run a battery of tests to fig- ure out how and why this happened to a 32 -year old who doesn't smoke, barely drinks, isn't obese or dia- betic, and doesn't have a family history of strokes in the prime of life. Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I have my own phone and laptop with me, and wifi in bed, so hopefully that will keep me from going stir crazy. Because I believe in full disclosure (over -sharing), I'm going to give the full details. I was at work (Tim Hortons) having a per- fectly normal day, feeling perfectly fine. All of a sud- den, as if flipping a switch, my vision went completely wonky, as if each of my eyes was swimming in every direction, indepen- dently (noticeably worse in my right eye). I attempted to keep work- ing, but I was light-headed and dizzy, and my speech began to slur. One of my coworkers, who had only just arrived, told me to sit down, and brought me a bottle of water. I took the bottle in my right hand, reached up to the lid with my left hand, gave it a twist, and... nothing. I had Val's Views Valerie Gillies no strength to grip the lid. By this point, the other young lady who was on (sister of the first) was call- ing for an ambulance, sounding positive that it was a stroke. By the time the ambulance arrived, I had lost control of my entire left arm, and my left leg was fading fast. The next couple hours are a blur, although I remember being fairly alert throughout. I was rushed to hospital, imme- diately admitted to emer- gency cardiac, and put on blood thinners to stop the blockage (a stroke is a blood clot in the brain, for those who don't know). Both my left arm and leg were unresponsive to my attempts to move them, although if they were lifted off the bed, I could hold them in place, somewhat. By around 8:30, after I'm assuming I passed out for a bit, I regained full motor control, and everyone I've encountered today is SHOCKED at how quickly and fully I'm recovering. As of 10:30am, I'm in a real bed, in the cardiac ward. I'm on an IV drip for nutri- ents today, because trou- ble swallowing is a com- mon side effect of stroke, so I am S000000 look- ing forward to being able to drink a glass of water, hopefully in the morning. I'm being held in hospi- tal for about 5 days, while they monitor my recovery, and run a battery of tests to figure out why and how this happened. The initial CT scan came back nega- tive, so they've got me scheduled for an MRI, to Peter Tregunna Gregory McNeish urges people to learn the early warning signs of a stroke after quick action from his coworkers saved him from suffering lingering effects or death. see if they can't pinpoint where the blockage hap- pened. A lot of my imme- diate family has been by, and my father and step- mother made a run to my apartment to fetch every- thing I'll need to not go stir crazy in here, and a fresh set of clothes to eventually go home wearing. Moral of the story: Pay attention to those TV com- mercials talking about the early warning signs of stroke. Know what they are, and if you see them, do not hesitate to call 911. My coworkers acted quickly and decisively, and because they did, I can walk, talk, smile, and type this message using both hands, without struggling to think of the words. If you can spare any time or money to support the Heart & Stroke Founda- tion, that would certainly be welcome, as well. Before I go, and to make certain I'm clear: I'm fine. All of the symptoms have gone, and there's every indi- cation that I'll walk away from this with nothing more than a healthy fear of God. It seems I've dodged the bul- let. Now my thoughts are on making sure this doesn't happen again, at least until I'm an old, old man. Lucknow News Ruth Dobrensky I'm baaack! My great-nephew Nick and I had a great holiday. We did some things locally, like go to the beach and attend Nick and Satomi Mann's wedding party. The highlight of our local holiday was our journey on the icecream trail (we started at Mary's for breakfast), for which we now have a couple of lovely new t -shirts. Of course we couldn't just go to all the stops on the icecream trail, we had to visit the lighthouse and museum at Point Clark and Nick "had" to go on the go-carts at Family Funland, but we restricted ourselves to only one icecream which we had at the Miller Mall. We also spent an enjoyable even- ing at the old gaol in Goderich where we visited with some very interesting "crimi- nals, vagrants and insane people" along with the prison doctor, cooks, and jailers. I was assured by the jailer's wife that if Nick misbehaved, I could leave him with her to straighten out. Nick also attended church with me and was quite impressed with our minister Perry Chuipka. Once we had run out of things to do locally, we headed over to my sisters in Perkinsfield where we visited the Keewatin, the go- cart track at Balm Beach and where Nick went fishing and kayaking with his uncle Marc. While the boys were doing their thing and my sister was golfing with her friends, I went off on my own and spent some time at the Martyr's Shrine in Mid- land. I took him home a bit earlier than I'd planned as he got homesick, but we did have a good time and put quite of few kms on the old car, just over 1,300 to be precise. We also were able to see the Antique Tractor Parade as it went through Lucknow and we're already planning next year's adventures. Former members of St. Peter's Angli- can Church got together at the home of Ruth Jardine for a potluck lunch last Tuesday. We had a wonderful lunch and an enjoyable time together This past Saturday St. Joseph's Commu- nity Kingsbridge Centre officially opened with many from the community attending. Alittle bird told me that a certain someone by the name of Marcia Dawson has just had her 97th birthday, happy birthday Marcia. A lot has happened around town lately and much of our scenery looks different with all the trees we lost on that horrid storm on August 9, the picture of the parking lot where I live was just one of the many places in town with a lot of damage. Now everyone is gear- ing up for the "Music in the Fields" concert which will be here before we knowit Sympathy of the community to the famil- lies of: Mary P. Macintosh, 94, Lucknow; Eve- lyn Gray, 89, North Bay (formerly of Walker- ton and Ashfield); Douglas Campbell, 65, Rockwood; Lucas Johnson, 16, Goderich (formerly Walkerton); Beatrice Borho, 87, Hanover (formerly Walkerton and Formosa); Harold Hill, WW II Veteran, 90, London; Madeline Ritchie, 85, Goderich; Douglas MacDonald, 96, New Hamburg and Dolores McKenzie, 87, Kincardine.