34-year-old Fresno stroke survivor shares message: 'It can happen to anybody'

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Reiko Rushing is connected a ngo arsenic she shares her communicative and educates the assemblage astir strokes.

"It tin hap to anybody, and it whitethorn not contiguous however you deliberation it's going to present," Rushing told Action News connected Wednesday.

She knows from experience.

"All of a sudden, I conscionable didn't consciousness great," she said. "You get this overwhelming feeling that thing conscionable is off."

Rushing turned disconnected the lights and sat successful her bureau connected March 4. She archetypal thought she had a atrocious migraine, but different symptoms rapidly acceptable in.

"My cervix and my backmost conscionable truly started to wounded much and more," Rushing said. "I had a headache. My receptor felt similar it truly needed to pop, truthful I kept wanting to yawn oregon chew gum -- thing to assistance relieve that sensation."

She went to urgent attraction and yet the hospital. At conscionable 34 years old, doctors accidental Rushing suffered a stroke.

"I had a tiny bleed successful my brain, truthful ultimately, I had a ruptured aneurysm," Rushing said.

Her connection comes arsenic Fresno's Community Regional Medical Center marked changeable consciousness period connected Wednesday. Registered caregiver Joyce Eden manages the hospital's changeable program.

"In today's world, if you cognize the symptoms of stroke, past you tin intervene and get the assistance that you need," Eden said.

She said you should cognize the BE FAST acronym: balance, eyes, face, arm, speech, and time.

"If you person thing that falls nether the BE FAST acronym, we inquire you conscionable to telephone 911. The sooner you get to america and the sooner we tin intervene, the much encephalon cells we tin save."

Rushing says she is inactive recovering but told maine it could person been overmuch worse if she had not gone to the infirmary erstwhile she did. She present hopes much radical admit the informing signs and perceive to their bodies.

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