Dictionary Search:
also called apoplexy, cerebrovascular accident. Pathology. a blockage or hemorrhage of a blood vessel leading to the brain, causing inadequate oxygen supply and, depending on the extent and location of the abnormality, such symptoms as weakness, paralysis of part of the body, speech difficulties, and if severe, loss of consciousness or death
Real Life:
an event that comes out of of nowhere causing varying degrees of disability, disrupting families, careers and lives and causing everyone to ask “what do we do now?”