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What happened when your dad had a stroke?
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What happened when your dad had a stroke?

This is the story of Roman's stroke, told by his two daughters Wioletta and Edyta. This video addresses the signs that Roman displayed before the family realised he was having a stroke and what happened after emergency services were called.

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So that time I was next to my father. She wasn't because I'm living with my father in a house. So I remember that it was evening, not evening, night time, kinda. Yeah, like midnight, something like this. My mom came to me and she said like something is going on with my father. So I ran upstairs and the first thing when I look at my father, he was acting strange. Maybe I shouldn't compare but he was kind of acting like a drunk person. He couldn't sit in one place, he couldn't even say what's going on. He was keep moving, like he couldn't find the place to sit down. And I was keep asking my mom, like, did he drink? Did he have anything to drink? And my mom said, no, he's acting strange for a couple of minutes. half an hour and I say what exactly happens and she told me like he start so half an hour before I came to their bedroom he starts switching on and switch off the lights in the like them rooms or corridor and my mom was keep asking my father like what are you doing sit down isn't everyone is nearly sleeping like take it easy and just go back to the bed and my father didn't answer anything like this and then he back to the bedroom and he sit on the bed he just sit and he fell and then my mom came closer to him and she say like Roman my father name is Roman and he say like Roman what's going on why you acting this much like that strange and my father just look at my mom and he didn't answer anything he just get up and sit down again on the bed and my mom look at him and she asked him like are you okay then he again he slept from the bed then my mom say okay something is really going on and then she came to me so when I came to the bedroom like I mentioned my father didn't really act normal he was yeah he couldn't really found the place to sit he was keep moving and he starts showing us his he's he was grabbing the right side of his body then let me check the blood pressure for him and when we check the blood pressure. It was really high. It was over 200. Then I ran downstairs. I grabbed my phone. I said to my mom, OK, we need to call for ambulance. Definitely something is going on. And my husband, he asked me like, what's going on? And I say something is wrong with my father so he ran with me upstairs and that was the moment when we realized my father had a stroke because when my husband entered the room he looked at my father and he straight away said, your dad has a stroke and just because of this when we called for the emergency, we straight away say like, Oh, probably my father had a stroke. So the lady asked me like, can you describe what's going on? So I told her about the high blood pressure that he is keep touching his right side of his body, that he can't pronounce any words, which is make a sense. And he can't find his place, like he was keep moving. You could see it's really something going on with him. Then I remember the lady asked me just one thing. If I can look at his lips and tell me how it looks, the curve on his lips, then I realize like it's really down. And she say, yeah, yeah, your father have a stroke. Then I say to my father, like, okay, the ambulance is on the way. We wait maybe 10-15 minutes for the ambulance to arrive. They confirmed as well the paramedic that he has a stroke and they took us to the hospital, to Charing Cross Hospital. They told us there is a specialist for the stroke, they have a specialist for that. Then I remember I went with my father to the hospital he went straight away to for the CT scan and after a few minutes the one of the lady came out across me and she told me that's right my father have a stroke what she can see on the CT scan is a really big stroke and he got the injection I'm not sure how you call this one but you have some few hours just when the person have a stroke to get the injection he got it this one but the doctor told me that he's not sure if she's not sure if with help anything because what she can see on the CT scan is really already big damage so that time she told me like yeah my father is admitted in a hospital and we should come back next day and talk with the doctors what will be happen next. That was the night which my father had a stroke.

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