 I went to a music festival in Baltimore and I was at a hotel and I woke up and had a stroke. Yeah, it was out of nowhere. I woke up that morning and then I couldn't move the whole right side of my body. I couldn't move my mouth to talk and I went to the hospital and I had a stroke. My boyfriend was talking to me and asking me questions and I could hear him and I could see him but I couldn't say anything or even like move to talk to him and say like something's wrong. We initially saw her on the day of the stroke and she presented with severe right-sided weakness and speech problems and she was transferred from another hospital and so after examining her it was pretty evident that despite her young age she was experiencing a stroke. I think I believe that it's my birth control that caused the clot and then I have a PFO which is a shot in my heart just a hole and that allowed the clot go up to my brain. Birth control pills or any type of estrogen containing hormone can increase the chance of having clots in either the veins or arteries because of some changes in the blood clotting system. In Jamie's case she had a specific type of stroke known as large vessel occlusion stroke. It's an occlusion of one of the main arteries as it enters the brain. It's one of the arteries as you can see here. With large vessel occlusion related stroke we are really on the clock. We want to get to patients as quickly as we can. If patients are coming from an outside hospital to our institution we want to get them transferred as quickly as we can. We want to triage them very quickly and we want to get them into this type of room very quickly to try to get catheters inside of the artery to try to open up that blocked artery. I stopped my birth control and I am on blood thinners now just as a precaution and low cholesterol medicine. I'm also eating healthier just because I don't know what else could have been in hand in hand with a stroke but I don't want to cause another one or be unhealthy by any means. I think she has a bright future ahead of her and we're just happy that we were able to contribute a little bit to getting her life back to normal.