Vol 36, (11) 951–951
One family's stroke experience
Jackie Jukes Jackie Jukes lives in rural Victoria. Her daughter Eilish suffered a stroke at age 3 years. Jackie has been involved in establishing a childhood stroke support network.
Eilish Rose Jukes was a healthy 3 1/2 year old. She contracted chicken pox mid April 2005 and recovered unremarkably, although her attention span and behaviour were out of character afterward.
On 1 June 2005, Eilish was watching her father shave when she fell to the left. He sat her up and when he asked her to wipe the shaving cream off her hands, he noticed she took the towel in one hand and only wiped that hand, completely forgetting the other hand. She stood with a lopsided mouth and her arm hung by her side. She couldn’t walk or talk, the words sounded like nonsense. We called an ambulance. About 4 minutes later she began to talk and walk again, and by the time the ambulance arrived she was back to normal. The ambulance transferred her to the local hospital and our GP examined her and found no residual symptoms, weakness or paralysis.
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