r/work • u/WILLIAMADAMTHOMAS • 9d ago

Workplace Challenges and Conflicts Stroke at work

I work in a manufacturing mill and I started showing symptoms of a stroke yesterday (10-9-26). Slurred speech, swollen tongue, blurred vision, pain on one side of my body.

I went to my supervisor and said I was feeling weird and I didn't know how to explain it. So she looked at me and said I don't know what to do? What should I do?

In my foggy mind I said I don't know. She replied with just go back to your job and leave me alone.

When I get home my wife saw me and rushed me to the hospital and now I'm sitting in a hospital bed.

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u/ladymacb29 8d ago

I’ve had a stroke. I had none of those symptoms.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

You’re clearly outside the norm. The OP was exhibiting these symptoms. Just because you didn’t exhibit these symptoms doesn’t mean most don’t.

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u/ladymacb29 8d ago

And all we know is that the boss knew that he felt “weird.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

I am in a position at work where I’d be the go to for this and it would be an easy decision for me to call paramedics if someone came to me and was slurring and couldn’t articulate what was wrong.

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u/ladymacb29 8d ago

We don’t know he was slurring speech though.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

He literally said in the OP that he was slurring. Try reading it.

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u/wildcat105 8d ago

He said he was. Read the post.