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TIA is the medical abbreviation for Transient Ischemic Attack, sometimes referred to as a "mini stroke" because the symptoms are transient and are just passing through temporarily.  Symptoms are very similair to a real stroke, but they subside in 24 hours, and the person is back to doing whatever, with NO damage done.  Eventually if enough of those occur, it can lead to a major stroke.CVA is the medical abbreviation for Cerebral Vascular Accident, or stroke.It means that blood vessels whether small or large have either burst, broke, annurysmed(spelling), sheared off, or cracked leaving the blood to escape either slowly or abruptly.Yes, it matters if the stroke was hemorrhagic in nature.  That means that the blood vessel in his head popped wide open and the amount of blood in his head is what the problem is.  Hemorrhagic strokes are the worst kind there are.  They do the most damage, will cause clots, bleed out into the brain causing all kinds of havoc in there, they cause bleeding inbetween any one of the three membranes that cover the brain, between all of them as a whole and the brain, between the skull and the membranes, among other things, and they kill people.  If not on the fist one, stats show alarming numbers for people's lives being taken by this problem.  This is NOT meant to scare you, so don't think that I am.They mess with the bodily functions, coordination, speech, hearing, ability to follow commands and be talked to, it messes up how they think, and alot of times they revert back to being a small child and actually act like it repeating the words no, yes, yucky, mine, not hungry, and wetting and defecating themselves etc.  I am on crutches after just getting off of them 5 months ago when I was in the EMU.  I had surgery in Feb to repair a faulty fascia in my heel--known as heel spurs or plantar fascitis.  I was crippled from it for 11 months, before I finally got referred to the right doc.  He did all the necessary treatments like inserts, PT, cortizone shots etc, and none of them worked, so he did the surgery.Because of my epilepsy, I couldn't have general anesthesia, so I was given Versed, and another narcotic to knock me out, and they did a nerve block from my knee down, that actually didn't wear off for 4 days, but when it did...it wasn't fun.I re-injured it stepping on a clear plastic hanger that was on the floor of my room under something, and I didn't see it.  I should have picked up the mess when my mother asked me to.I stepped right across the surgical site and inscision sites.  I know have a swelled up foot from front to back on the bottom, because that is the path of the fascia, and swelling on the lower top of my foot near my toes, and bad bruising as well, not to mention the pain all over again.Then 2 days ago, I jumped into our pool to try and land on my noodle, and got the noodle, but also got the bottom of the pool doing so.  I scraped the top of my toes on the bad foot all up, and hyper-flexed my foot straight back, and now I have a sprained ankle on top of all the other crap. Nothing has been done with the cab driver.  They probably won't, because as we were leaving the parking lot, he called his supervisor and made some asinine complaint about MY behavior and how out of line I was.He was acting like a fool before I ever came in the scene.  He was being nasty and bad to the receptionist at the office where I had an appointment with, and he was being argumentitive with her and got nasty with her when she told him that my time is not up yet, becaaue the counselor started late.He wouldn't allow me to schedule next week's appoinment, and was nasty when I asked him if I could, and I still haven't.  When we left and were in the main lobby of the building, some man approached him and told him that he couldn't park his car where it was, because his wife has a scooter and had to go the long way around.That made him more mad, and I apologized to him for it two times, and he said sorries aren't going to get me paid lady.  Then I told him while he was throwing things around in disgust in the front, that if he didn't want to take me, I would gladly call dial-a-ride, well then he was even uglier about that, because I was threatening him.  He told me that I was way out of line.He called the supervisor and told him half the truth, and then said that I have a crap attitude, and that I was listening, and he didn't care if I was listening, and said that I got testy with him making threats about getting a different service.I am not going to put up with that kind of abuse, when I can ride Dial-a-Ride and be respected all the way around both by the drivers and the passengers.I almost had a seizure from his performance.  I was already shaking.I tried, but I doubt anything will come of it.  He is just an ass.He is in it for the money, not for helping the people.  He gets or any other drivers only get a 5 dollar voucher when they take calls to pick up people who are state insured.  He just didn't like it.I need to go.TTYL:)Nancy