In May, Stafford resident Andrea Keady, 46, was scheduled to appear in a community theater production. Seven months after having a stroke and collapsing, a woman gushed about how happy she was to have participated in a play.
She passed out four weeks before the dress rehearsal and was taken to the hospital.
Ms. Keady said it was “absolutely amazing” to participate in the opening night on Tuesday. The show was postponed while she healed.
She uttered: “Oh my God, I’m not going to be able to do the play was my initial thought. My doctor believed I had the wrong priorities!”
The woman, 46, said that the stroke struck her out of nowhere because she had gone out for a stroll the day before. However, when she woke up on Monday morning, “my right side felt a bit tingling.”
She told BBC Radio Stoke,
“It just got worse and worse till my whole right side was absolutely paralyzed, it wouldn’t hold me up.
She was brought to the Royal Stoke University Hospital, where medical staff informed her that a stroke had occurred.
The Stafford Players postponed the performance of Memory of Water at the Gatehouse Theatre while she healed, and Ms. Keady expressed her joy at being able to participate.
It’s a little bit more exhausting than it used to be, and it might require a little bit more mental effort to keep the lines in my head, but other than that, she added, it’s been great.
Even though she claimed to be almost back to normal, she still has some fine motor skill issues with her right hand and finds it difficult to write.
“That’s definitely my biggest problem, I love notebooks and things like that because I scribble, but my writing is practically the same as it was when I was about six,” the author said.
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