Lifestyle, diet, family history, whether you smoke at all or drink to excess are all bullets waiting to go in the gun. And if you've got that ammunition, sooner or later you'll pull the trigger. Strange as it may seem, diabetes saved my life. It was a final wake-up call to change my lifestyle. I didn't change it enough to save me from a stroke but enough to limit the effects.
All strokes are serious and the most serious are killers.
Even if you don't die, many victims are left unable to walk or talk and even have difficulty swallowing their food. A stroke can affect your ability to read and write and even if you can talk, sometimes the words don't come out in the correct order. A stroke, be it caused by a blockage in vessels carrying oxygen-enriched blood to the brain or bleeding into the brain, is a permanent process. Quite simply, part of the brain is destroyed. But it's not all bad news.