Reverberations of a Stroke: A Memoir
Reverberations of a Stroke: A Memoir
by Karl Gustafson
English | 2019 | ISBN: 303012861X | 72 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
by Karl Gustafson
English | 2019 | ISBN: 303012861X | 72 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
In the early morning hours of Feb. 1, 2016, Karl Gustafson became instinctively aware that something catastrophic was happening inside him. A severe headache that had persisted for days had taken a sudden turn for the worse, and a clear inner voice ordered him to obtain immediate help. With determined effort, he tapped out the digits “9-1-1” on his phone―bringing an ambulance to his door quickly and saving his life. Emergency Room doctors would soon learn that Professor Gustafson, a renowned American mathematician, had suffered a deep brain hemorrhage, and that the situation was dire. By the time his condition was diagnosed, blood had pooled into all four ventricles of Gustafson’s brain and he was comatose.