Dystextia: Woman’s Garbled Text Messages Were Sign Of Stroke

When a 25-year-old pregnant woman replied to her husband’s text about an appointment with the obstetrician with “every where thinging days nighing,” her husband knew there was something wrong (especially since her phone’s autocorrect was off).

And turns out, he was right — she had suffered a stroke.

The case, which was reported in the Archives of Neurology, details what researchers call “dystextia,” and how it helped to clue doctors in to a woman’s acute ischemic stroke.

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