my stroke

in the early morning hours of saturday the2nd july 2005, i tried to get out of bed but my continuous digging of my elbow on the bed to prop me up proved futile, that was the last that i could remember. next i awoke in bed in the purajaya hospital and was told that i had a stroke. not knowing anything about stroke prior to that, i remain calm but my body seems to have this urgent need to go for a piss, at which particular moment i discovered that a catheher was painfully attached to my private part, so followed my first pissing experience via a cathether- utterly uncomfortable but not having any other choice, i proceeded to force the discharge. i then remember going through various machines which i later discovered were the mri and cscan ones.very slowly i became aware of my surroundings, my dear wife was there and the constant stream of visitors, relatives and friends. i was discharged after almost a week and still i was in good spirits, continuing to deceive myself that this was just another of one of those things which will soon correct itself. how verywrong i was!!!, for the next 6 months i was bedridden,the stroke having caused me to lose use and control of my left limb, my speech was surly and my ability to throw big water(buang air besar) severely curtailed it was all a total shock to me and my first instinct was to try to recollect the events that leads to these affliction. i remember eating ten nos of durians the day before whilst on my way back from nilai where my second son was studying, then, as is normal i busied myself around the house taking care of the plants together with azhar, my assistantand later on in the evening my usual night out at the royal lake club with nonad, max, steven, rama and others.maybe the mixture of durian and whiskey was the fatal catalyst that triggered something abnormal in my brain