Strokecast

Olga and her husband were having the vacation of a lifetime. They hooked up a teardrop trailer to their Subaru in NJ and headed out west. The planned to explore the gorgeous landscapes of the Washington State parks before jumping on ferry to Alaska. On July 19, 2021, at a campground in Deception Pass State Park on the Washington State Peninsula, things started to unravel. Olga had a brain stem stroke. She felt tingling up and down one side of her body and could not stop vomiting. She felt it was a stroke. Her husband called 911 and they made it out of the woods to a fire house. The EMT said she wasn't having a stroke. The ambulance that arrived said she wasn't having a stroke. The ER staff said she wasn't having a stroke. The neurologist said she probable wasn't having a stroke and specifically discouraged the tPA that could have solved the problem And no one sent her to the more advanced hospitals in Seattle for stroke treatment. The window for tPA came and went. This whole time, Olga wa