
Stronger After Stroke · Norton Neuroscience Comprehensive Stroke Center and Resource Center
Lost in Translation: Bella's Stroke Journey Abroad
·39 min·3 clips
Bella woke up with tunnel vision and couldn't speak, while her husband suspected a stroke during their Italy vacation.
As heard by us
A grounded stroke story about Italy, medication confusion, and recovery that is harder to read than it first appears.
Bella's recovery story has a practical, unsentimental edge. It starts with the crisis in Italy, then moves into the medication confusion that followed, and keeps coming back to the harder question of what was stroke and what was something else.
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