The Journey of Stroke Survivor Shug Kisner: Another Good Day!

The Day of Dad's Stroke

Tuesday, October 16th, our father "Shug" got up like every weekday morning at 5:30a.m. and headed into work at Wholesale Tire Company. According to his co-workers, he began feeling a tingling on his left side and just wasn't feeling right. He told Wayne to go on out and get started and if he felt worse he would call him. Shortly after, he radioed for help. An ambulance was called and he was transported to City Hospital in Martinsburg. The ER team who cared for him did an AMAZING job - their proactive and accurate care helped stabilize him in a very critical period. Shug has AFib (Atrial Fibrilation - a condition of the heart which causes irregular, rapid beating of the atrial chambers). This condition required him last Spring to go on a blood thinning medicine called "Coumadin". When the stroke occurred - due to his high blood pressure and blood thinner medicine - the doctors initially were concerned about being able to reverse the effects of the coumadin as they observed a very significant hemorrhage on the right side of his brain. City Hospital stabilized him, and sent him by ambulance to Winchester Medical Center where a team of stroke specialists and a nuero surgeon awaited. He spent most of the day in the ER stabilizing him. By Tuesday evening he was transferred upstairs to the ICU in Winchester

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