Even when it was happening, I was convinced that it could not be a stroke, that it had to be something else, even though I had the three hallmark signs (arm weakness, facial droop, slurred speech).

We can't thank Alex enough for turning his difficult experience into a learning opportunity for pharmacists and patients alike!

Strokes always have a source of origin and a cause, right? Wrong. Sometimes in medicine, there isn't an etiology. One example, cryptogenic stroke.