Jim Fisher had a stroke at the age of 32 and has urged men who have a history of high blood pressure to get themselves checked out by a doctor.
The ambulance came very quickly – within five minutes. They strapped me in and took me off to hospital, blue lights and all.
At some point, I was thrombolysed – where they give you an injection to dissolve away a blood clot. The next thing I remember, I woke up at 7am on Monday with my wife and my mum at my bedside in a stroke ward.I had lost all movement on my right side and my speech sounded slurred. I also lost half of the visual field in both eyes and was told I would never drive again.
Essentially, when I swung the golf club that day, I tore or burst the artery – maybe it had been previously damaged. The doctors told me that if my blood pressure had been normal, it wouldn’t have happened. The doctor said it was all ‘bollocks’, that I just had ‘white coat syndrome’ – where people’s blood pressure is raised as they get freaked out in medical situations.
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