Thread by @Gurdur

1/n Just had a fascinating conversation with the neighbour, the one with a carpentry business in the ex-manufactory, which abuts the garden on one side. This is the guy who got hauled off two weeks ago in an ambulance, with #norovirus.

cc.@NanHayworth

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1323848005351604224

2/n Turns out finally (oh, how I hate incomplete and/or erroneous reports) that the bloke actually *also* had what I diagnosed from report as a TIA (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient…), which was the trigger for his wife calling the ambulance.
cc.@NanHayworth, @dhambrick63, @thinkalot

3/n Norovirus, a TIA from norovirus, neurovirus amirite hurrr hurr herp derp. No, it does make sense; massive dehydration, combined with lying position, causing a fairly BIG TIA, one-sided loss of all motor control (right side of body), just to really *clinch* Dx, stark aphasia!

4/n If you think my sense of humor is abysmal, well yes, so it is. They checked the bloke over in hospital, brain scan and all. No remaining evidence of stroke or brainbleed, so, my Dx of TIA is the best, I reckon, TIA as sequela of norovirus.

https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1328685907554267137

5/n If you wonder what I DID about this, I just told him very strongly to take a micro-aspirin a day for 3 months. TIA's can indicate predisposition for strokes, and in any case, can it really hurt him? Naaaw. Big strong carpenter in his late 40's, why worry amirite

6/6 The poor bugger *also* got lumbago or sciatica while in hospital, sciatica as iatrogenic disease, lol. He said the hospital bed was too short for him, and "had a kink" (translated, maybe the central section raised?), giving him severe sciatica or lumbago (unclear).

7/ Oh, he's fine. Back at work, seems fine, zero probs. The total motor (Broca's) aphasia was interesting, tho no receptive (Wernicke's) aphasia at all, praise be to cerebral arteries (aphasias were my professional area once), but *shrug* he's fine now.

https://twitter.com/maryfedhill/status/1328685815585775618