Yet a stroke has left him nearly unable to speak, with months, maybe years, of therapy ahead. Partly because of his age and partly because of the lack of a hospital with an M.R.
I. machine where he lives, no one recognized the symptoms of a stroke until it was too late to administer a treatment that could have limited the damage and speeded his recovery.
This treatment, with a drug called t-PA (for tissue plasminogen activator), can help dissolve a brain-damaging clot in the 80 percent of victims who have strokes caused by them.
But it must be administered within three hours of a stroke to be effective, and the sooner the better.
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