A patient asked me if I'd had a stroke
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A patient asked me if I'd had a stroke Context: I'm a nursing assistant in a hospital and I mostly work in the discharge lounge, i.e. the place patients go when they've been discharged but are still waiting for their transport home and/or prescription medication. I've also had a stutter ever since I was about 10, was pretty bad for many years but I've gotten speech therapy for it in the last two years and it's not as bad as it was. Anyway, a few weeks ago, we had a patient come down to the lounge from the rehab ward, which has a lot of stroke patients. Can't remember if this guy had had a stroke himself, but I talked with him for a bit, answering his questions, and out of the blue he asked me if I'd had a stroke. I was taken aback, to say the least, but I soon realised why he asked that and laughed it off, saying I just have a stutter, and he seemed to accept that. I've worked a fair bit on my stutter and normally I get pretty self-conscious when people point it out, but the blunt way he asked this just made me laugh.