Dave Cooley was running a chainsaw in the woods near his western Wisconsin home when he suddenly lost strength in his arms and legs.
He sat on a tree stump for nearly half an hour before recovering.
“I lost my senses, and it took a long time to get my senses back,” said Cooley, a farmer from Bagley.
A new procedure at UW Hospital, one of just four hospitals in the country to offer it so far, is expected to greatly reduce the risk of stroke by clearing clogged blood vessels in the brain.
The procedure involves a new application of an old device – a stent, or mesh wire scaffold, which props open arteries narrowed by the buildup of plaque, allowing blood to freely pass through again.
