Sloppy Texting or a Stroke?
If you use your phone to send and receive text messages, you’ve seen your share of gibberish, often due to the auto correct feature. It can turn “Meet you at the theater around noon” into “Newt you anyone heater around Jon.” Doctors in Boston have found what they believe to be the first instance where an odd text message was used to help diagnose a stroke. A man received a garbled message from his wife. But this wasn’t just a line or two. This was a whole conversation that didn’t make sense. He was alarmed enough to get her to an emergency room where she was diagnosed with a stroke. ABC News wrote about the incident, which was reported online in this week’s Archives of Neurology.
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