In 2017, Chris Dent was just 55 years old when he started having trouble walking and even speaking. He and his doctor at the time, both thought he may have had a stroke. “My doctor sent me to have an MRI,” Chris remembers. “He called me the next morning at 8 o’clock and said, ‘good news you didn’t have a stroke, bad news you have a golf ball sized brain tumor.’”

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When you consider the fact that stroke medicine can only be given within the first few hours, recognition and timely treatment are critical.