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May 1-2, 2013
HEART & STROKE
HEALTHY LIFE
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Cyndi Wells didn’t know her strange symptoms were caused by a stroke.
Luckily her boss recognized the signs – drooping face, weakened arm,
slurred speech – and acted in time. At the hospital, Cyndi met with a
Providence Stroke Center neurologist and received life-saving medication.
Five days later, she was fully recovered and on the beach in Costa Rica,
shaken but not deterred. “I’m grateful I’m alive, and grateful that my
boss found me and knew what to do,” Cyndi says.
Think
FAST
:
F
ace,
A
rm,
S
peech,
T
ime.
Do your part for American Stroke Month this May.
Learn more, meet some stroke heroes, and share
your own stories at www.providence.org/stroke.
Be a stroke hero. Think FAST.
To watch Cyndi’s full story,
scan the QR code with a
smartphone.
Cyndi Wells (left), stroke survivor, with her boss and stroke hero, Rhea Hergenrather,
at Good News Gardening in Hood River, Ore.
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