<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/317ce896-8ee0-49bb-b2db-8cf57dacf489/F88EAD4A-CE1D-4C85-958E-151874019A3C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.strokeawareness.org/TOPIC/recognizing.htm" href="http://www.strokeawareness.org/TOPIC/recognizing.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.strokeawareness.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.strokeawareness.org/TOPIC/recognizing.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="57%" valign="top" height="597" bgcolor="#ffffff"><P>　</p> <P align="left"><B><FONT color="#ff9900"> <SPAN>STROKE: Remember The 1st Three Letters...</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT size="1" face="Arial" color="#444444"><SPAN> </SPAN></FONT> <IMG width="434" height="290" src="http://www.strokeawareness.org/TOPIC/../IMAGES/stroke.bmp" /> <B><FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN> RECOGNIZING A STROKE:</SPAN></FONT></B> <FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN><SPAN lang="en-us"> Remember </SPAN>the "3" steps. </SPAN></FONT> <FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. Unfortunately, the lack of awareness spells disaster. The stroke victim may suffer severe brain damage when people nearby fail to recognize the symptoms of a stroke.</SPAN></FONT> </P><P align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>Now doctors say a bystander can recognize a stroke by asking three simple questions:</SPAN></FONT> </P><OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <P align="left"><B><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>S</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"><SPAN> *Ask the individual to <B><SPAN>SMILE</SPAN></B>.</SPAN></FONT> </P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <P align="left"><B><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>T</SPAN></FONT></B><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"><SPAN> *Ask the person to <B><SPAN>TALK</SPAN></B>, to <B><SPAN>SPEAK A SIMPLE SENTENCE</SPAN></B>. </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size="2" face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>(Coherently) (i.e. . . It is sunny out today?</SPAN></FONT></P></LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <P align="left"><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>R</SPAN></FONT><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"><SPAN> *Ask him or her to <B><SPAN>RAISE BOTH ARMS</SPAN></B>.</SPAN></FONT><FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"><SPAN> <BR /></SPAN></FONT><I><FONT size="2" face="Arial"> <SPAN>NOTE: Another 'sign' of a stroke is this: Ask the person to 'stick' out their tongue . if the tongue is 'crooked', if it goes to one side or the other, that is also an indication of a stroke. </SPAN></FONT> <FONT size="4" face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN> <BR /></SPAN></FONT></I><BR /><FONT face="Arial" color="#444444"> <SPAN>If he or she has trouble with any one of these tasks, call 911 immediately and describe the symptoms to the dispatcher. </SPAN></FONT> </P></LI></OL> <P align="left">　</P></TD></tr></table></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F88EAD4A-CE1D-4C85-958E-151874019A3C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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