Slowly, she found it impossible to raise her right arm. Her handwriting became crooked, and it continued until her whole right side lacked strength. First she went to a community hospital near where she lived. The doctor there feared that it was a problem of short-term deficiency of blood to the brain and quickly referred her to a major hospital for tests.
30 歲的許小姐去年底突然莫名頭痛，手指頭感覺麻木，慢慢右手也無法高舉，握筆寫字歪歪扭扭，後來蔓延到身體右半側無力，她先到中和住家附近的社區醫院檢查，醫生懷疑是短暫性腦缺血，要她趕緊到大醫院檢查。