Senator Ben Ray Lujan suffers cerebellar stroke
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by Jodi Gehring, MD
2y ago
This morning I awakened to the news that a US Senator from New Mexico, Ben Ray Lujan, had sustained a stroke in his cerebellum last week, diagnosed after he presented to the University of New Mexico Hospital with dizziness. Of course, the media was making it into a political Senate 50/50 split issue (and in a divided nation, this certainly seems to get the ratings these days), but I was thinking – I wonder if he is relatively young, as so many of my cerebellar stroke patients have been. And he is – 49 years old. Which had me wondering if he could have had a vertebral artery dissection. Or was ..read more
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Early morning thoughts about cerebellar stroke patients
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by Jodi Gehring, MD
2y ago
I awoke to the sound of my 13 month old son on the baby monitor at 3:01AM today. His nickname is Baby Shark, and therefor the baby monitor is known as the “Shark Cam” in our house. And as happens with sharks, he seems to be getting a lot of new teeth these days. I don’t remember my own teething experience, but I imagine it isn’t pleasant to have hard, pointed objects bursting through fresh gum tissue, and not having enough frontal lobe development or life experiences to understand the pain. Poor little guy. Once I comforted Shark and got him back to sleep about an hour later, I started thinkin ..read more
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I Am A Doctor On The Internet, and I Am Covid-19 Vaccinated
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by Jodi Gehring, MD
2y ago
Recently, it hit me. I’m a doctor. And I’m “on the internet.” But I don’t have a YouTube channel. Well, I technically do, but the only videos I have posted are of my cat, and of my daughter doing an excellent cover of Imagine Dragons’ “Thunder” when she was three years old. But back to being a doctor who is “on the internet.” I have had a blog for years, and have even written a book! Perhaps I get a say in the whole Covid-19 vaccine debate too then? Then again, maybe it isn’t my medical degree, my four years of residency training, my year of fellowship subspecialty training, my 11 years subseq ..read more
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More evidence that Covid-19 is a disease of clotting
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by Jodi Gehring, MD (previously known as Jodi Dodds, MD)
4y ago
A paper appeared yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, adding to the growing body of evidence that clotting is a prominent feature in Covid-19, even if it isn’t always evident. People who develop difficulty breathing with influenza (“the flu”) or more run-of-the-mill pneumonias may look at first like they have similar shortness of breath to those with Covid-19, but this particular study details autopsy results of careful examination of the lungs in patients who have died from Covid-19 versus patients who have succumbed to influenza. The article can be accessed by clicking here. For ..read more
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Stroke emerging as complication of Covid-19
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by Jodi Gehring, MD (previously known as Jodi Dodds, MD)
4y ago
On April 28, 2020, a letter published in the New England Journal of Medicine describing blood clots in large arteries supplying the brain (known as “large-vessel strokes”) in young patients testing positive for Covid-19 brought media attention to this particular facet of a disease physicians, healthcare providers, and researchers are endeavoring to understand. (Click here to read the brief NEJM letter.) The letter’s authors have been treating patients with Covid-19 in the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City. They note that, on average, every two weeks their hospitals typically encounter ..read more
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Fear accompanies loss of control, in Covid-19 and in stroke
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by Jodi Gehring, MD (previously known as Jodi Dodds, MD)
4y ago
In 2012, I walked through a cemetery in Cashion, Oklahoma, eager to find the final resting places of my grandmother’s seven siblings and many other long since departed ancestors and relatives. My grandmother, Alta Jane Anderson, was still alive then, going strong in her assisted living facility in Houston, Texas at the age of 92, her mind as sharp as it had always been. She could talk March Madness brackets each year, still read a book every week or two, and never forgot the birthday of any of her children or their spouses, her seven grandchildren or their spouses, or of her 18 great-grandchil ..read more
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“Puckett Will Park It”: Reflecting on Stroke In Young People During the World Series
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by Jodi Gehring, MD (previously known as Jodi Dodds, MD)
4y ago
I was born in Houston, Texas, and have fond memories of going to the Astrodome in the 1980s with my grandfather to watch the Astros play baseball. They knew that orange was the new black way before Netflix existed, as did their fans. This year, needless to say, I excitedly cheered them on this year’s impassioned team during the World Series, and while they ended short during game 7, man – what a fun journey. Congratulations to the Washington Nationals on a hard-earned victory, and to my Astros on a fantastic season! As I have watched games this year with my baseball-enthused fiancé (who bec ..read more
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Stroke awareness arrived early this year
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by Jodi Dodds, MD
5y ago
On the evening of February 13, 2019, I awoke from a deep sleep and could not feel or move my entire right leg. I recognized that it belonged to me, but when my brain would command it to move, nothing happened. It just laid there, a significant portion of my body, not responding. I did not have a stroke. Several weeks earlier, when I jumped over an inlet of water on the beach, as I landed my right leg bent sideways (ouch!), and I felt my knee effectively come apart. Sorry if this is gross, but it’s the truth – I could feel two bones (femur and tibia) separate when I landed, and then snap ..read more
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