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I’m taking on the challenge of Stride4Stroke and raising funds for Stroke Foundation!

Hi there, I'm taking on the challenge of Stride4Stroke and raising funds for Stroke Foundation to help prevent stroke, save lives and enhance recovery.

In the next 11 minutes, someone, somewhere in Australia is going to have a stroke.

Stroke is one of Australia's biggest killers and doesn't discriminate; it affects anyone, anytime. It claims more lives than breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men. And incredibly, up to 120 babies and 400 children have a stroke in Australia each year.

By supporting me, you'll be helping to sustain vital programs and resources that Stroke Foundation provides, including:

Preventing Stroke:

  • StrokeSafe Talks
  • Australia's Biggest Blood Pressure Check
  • Information Resources

Saving Lives:

  • F.A.S.T. (Face, Arms, Speech, Time) Signs of Stroke Awareness
  • Living Guidelines for Stroke Management
  • InformMe Website for Health Professionals

Enhancing Recovery:

  • StrokeLine
  • My Stroke Journey
  • EnableMe Website for Survivors of Stroke

Your support goes beyond just a donation; it's a lifeline for individuals at risk of stroke and survivors of stroke.

Thank you for supporting me. Together we can change the state of stroke in Australia for generations to come.

My Updates

Stroke Survivor

I’ve lived through something I never expected at 31. 29th January. It was lunchtime, and I was at home. I got up off the lounge, had a buzzing ear noise but suddenly, I lost my balance like I was inebriated and collapsed. As I was falling to the floor, I tried to speak, slurring, "Dad, I think I'm having a stroke." My dad, who had just finished a night shift and was jet-lagged, didn’t hesitate. He said, “Stay there, I’ll get an ambulance.” It’s ironic because earlier that morning, I had asked him if he’d had a stroke because he seemed so out of it.

There I was on the ground, my left side numb paralysed, the right side of my face I could feel drooping, and my speech slurred. But no-one noticed and was hard to communicate. I was sweating bullets, and deep down, I knew it was serious. The ambulance arrived quickly, but to my disbelief, they thought it was a mental health episode. They asked me if I wanted to go to the hospital. I said " I don't want to, but I need too."

In the emergency room, the doctors still thought it was mental health. Fortunately, they sent me for a CT scan. They asked me to stay still but it was uncontrollable movement. Almost two hours after the symptoms started, they finally identified a blood clot in my cerebellum. They administered a clot-busting drug and rushed me, lights and sirens, to North Shore for a clot retrieval procedure. My vision and tremors were bad but only I could see and feel.

Lying on the operating table, I remember trying to communicate that I just wanted them to put me to sleep, and I knew I might either wake up or not. I wasn’t scared of dying—it was the thought of being paralysed for life, needing permanent care, and the worry of how it would impact life that weighed on me. I knew worse case scenario I join my mother and grandparents.

When I woke up, the first thing I noticed was that I could see out of my eye, and my face wasn’t numb or paralysed anymore. I was shivering from anaesthetic . Within three days, I started getting feeling back in my left side, and I was gaining strength. Incredibly, I was running again in the ward. I was discharged within seven days. Although I still had some twitching and minor movement issues, I improved day by day. I did every exercise I could find online for my symptoms, even tried rehab for a few weeks.

But emotionally, I wasn’t okay. I cried every few days, sometimes every week, questioning, “Why me? How did this happen?” "Could It happen again" It was even more frustrating when they couldn’t find a cause—no high blood pressure, no hole in the heart, no high cholesterol. I became part of the 20% whose strokes are cryptogenic.

In hindsight, four days before the stroke I said to my father I feel tired and weak after mowing, I couldn't finish it. Two days later we went away for the long weekend and I noticed my vision was blurry and I couldn't focus on the TV and read the paper. I couldn't sit still.

Three weeks later after the stroke, I was back at work full-time. Seven months later, you wouldn’t even know I’d had a stroke. I had fatigue early on briefly. I feel so lucky compared to others. Physically, I feel 99% fine. But the invisible mental battle? That’s ongoing. There’s support out there.

So far I have helped Stroke Foundation deliver…

Initial advice and support from a health professional on StrokeLine

A stroke recovery pack to three survivors of stroke

Training to a StrokeSafe volunteer to deliver community talks.

Funding to stroke researchers to find the next game-changer in stroke.

Thank you to my Sponsors

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Helen Price

Good on you Steven

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Matt Clarke

Well done mate!

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Aviso Group is proud to match your donation.

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Rachael Wilson

Good work Steven

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Anonymous

You are an amazingly strong man Steven

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Erin Daniela

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Lyndall Shahidi

Amazing work Steve!

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Lee Moses

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Prudence Cullen

Good luck Steven!!!

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Brayden Duncan

Love ya Stevie B

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Keep up the good work Stevie

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Philippa Cahalane

So glad to see you're doing well. Good luck with your fund raising 💙

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