Hey All, Let start with thank you for all the prayers as it looks like it helped. Doc's say mom had a very small mini stroke and should fully recover in 6-8months with small to near no side affects. She is back home and moving around with the aid of a walker and hopes to be using a cane by the end of February. She is now on a very low sodium and very low fat, heart healthy diet due to very high cholesterol and high blood pressure, both of which brought on the stroke in the first place. The diet is absolutly going to be tough for her to stay on since maom and dad have been meat and potato type of people all the lives. When I say meat, I mean meat!!!!! Red meat at every meal but breakfast and that would be usually be ham with all that tasty fat on it. All in All it has been a wake up call for me, dad, and all my brothers. Life is too short to sweat the small things that i thought were big things. This has made all my troubles seem minuscule in comparison to almost losing mom. With that said, I have stopped smoking and my wife, kids, and I are now eating much healthier and have started walking every night after dinner (weather permitting). I need to be around to see my 9 month old grow up to be a man!!!! From the bottom of my heart, thank you again for all the kind words and prayers!!!!!!!
