Brooks Stewart

Striving for the Best: Stroke Survivor Karen Croom

By Jason Schneider When Karen Croom awoke one Thursday morning in January and called her husband, he realized something was wrong. “He said that my speech was slurred, that I couldn’t talk,” Croom said. Croom had planned to take her grandson to some appointments that day, and her husband asked her to wake him up […]

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Ischemic and Hemorrhagic – Two Types of Strokes

By Brooks Stewart, MD Stroke is brain damage resulting from a problem with the brain’s blood supply. Symptoms may be transient or short-lived (called TIA, or transient ischemic attack), or they may become permanent if irreversible damage occurs to brain tissue (called stroke, or cerebrovascular accident). Broadly speaking, there are two types of strokes. Ischemic […]

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