On a ride to high school one morning, Shelley Marshall asked her daughter how things were going with her field hockey team.<\/p>\n
At least, that\u2019s what she intended to say. The words came out so garbled that her daughter said, \u201cMom, what is going on? Are you having a stroke or something? Look at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall looked fine. Although slurred speech is a classic stroke symptom, she didn\u2019t have a droopy face or arm weakness. In a clear voice, she told her daughter not to worry.<\/p>\n
Marshall, though, was concerned.<\/p>\n
Two days earlier, she noticed that she\u2019d slurred her own name. Her blood pressure had recently been slightly elevated. And she was still recovering from a serious bout of COVID-19, her third. All of this was unusual for Marshall, then 47 and in excellent health, thanks in part to running nearly every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On a ride to high school one morning, Shelley Marshall asked her daughter how things were going with her field hockey team.<\/p>\n
At least, that\u2019s what she intended to say. The words came out so garbled that her daughter said, \u201cMom, what is going on? Are you having a stroke or something? Look at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Marshall looked fine. Although slurred speech is a classic stroke symptom, she didn\u2019t have a droopy face or arm weakness. In a clear voice, she told her daughter not to worry.<\/p>\n
Marshall, though, was concerned.<\/p>\n
Two days earlier, she noticed that she\u2019d slurred her own name. Her blood pressure had recently been slightly elevated. And she was still recovering from a serious bout of COVID-19, her third. All of this was unusual for Marshall, then 47 and in excellent health, thanks in part to running nearly every day.<\/p>\n