Urgent Aid for Father's Stroke Surgery and Recovery

Unfortunately, yesterday after I got off stream at 4am, I was going to take a shower when my mom came downstairs in a panic, yelling for me. Normally, me being exhausted, I let out a half-sleepy “yes mother,” not fully detecting the panic in her voice. When she opened my door, she proceeded to tell me she had called 911 and that my father was suffering a stroke (to what I can recall, I believe she only said he’s not being fully responsive and is half-conscious on the ground).

Immediately, my adrenaline started pumping and like a majority of my life, my fight or flight instincts kicked in. I proceeded to hop out of the shower dripping wet, dried myself off as fast as I have ever dried myself before, threw clothes on, and ran upstairs to find my father still in his sleeping attire on the floor.

He was barely speaking, let alone forming words. Just the same phrase, “I’m okay, I’m okay,” but merely gibberish mumbled.

My mother and I from there picked him up off the floor, and as my mother ran around getting things prepped for the EMTs to arrive, I sat what felt like an eternity holding him upright until; throughout this whole process, about 10 minutes later from the shower to my parents' room, the EMTs showed up. Past another 5 minutes, they loaded him onto the cart after taking him down the stairs in a carrying moving chair, and out to the ambulance.

From there, they took him to our downtown hospital, where we would meet the surgeon Mazen K. Abuawad, MD (https://providers.nchmd.org/fl/naples/mazen-k-abuawad), who as of now, next to the rest of the NCH team, saved my dad’s life. From about 7-9am, they went in and performed surgery where they cleared two blood clots, one in his right artery and another that had penetrated his brain causing the stroke, and injected a medical solution/medicine to break up the clot since it was too deep in his brain to perform the surgery surgically for that portion.

To skip the part where we had to help my father along with ICU nurses for 12 hours straight post-surgery to help get him to a semi-stable mental place to begin his recovery period - as of today, he is in a stable condition (God having faith) and is slowly recovering.