| The Stroke Blog |
| https://strokeblog.net I awoke to the sound of my 13 month old son on the baby monitor at 3:01AM today. His nickname is Baby Shark and therefor the baby monitor is known as the “Shark Cam” in our house. And as happens with sharks he seems to be getting a lot of new teeth these days. I don’t remember my own teething experience but I imagine it isn’t pleasant to have hard pointed objects bursting through fresh gum tissue and not having enough frontal lobe development or life experiences to understand the pain. Poor little guy. Once I comforted Shark and got him back to sleep about an hour later I started thinking about the natural thing most moms might ponder at 4AM – cerebellar stroke. Doesn’t everyone contemplate this neurological phenomenon at that weary hour? I thought of the cases I have encountered over the years of patients who seek help for dizziness nausea and vomiting who are then sent home from the ER diagnosed with more benign forms of vertigo or migraines but are dead three days later from severe cerebellar swelling. They are some of the saddest cases neurologists encounter because they are so tragic. And they can occur […]  /strokeblog |  |
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