In very brief description, on September 5th, 2021, I had an ischemic stroke. There are many types of stroke, mine happened because a blood vessel broke and pickled my brain. Practicing medicine works really well for me. Serving people in health and wellbeing is a driver in my life. 

As it has been told to me, I called my dear husband Michael into the kitchen. I was cooking. We had been arguing about family politics as my brother and sister had just left. Like a good family visit, ours was complete with plenty of love and challenge. Michael was finally free to escape into the games his iPhone offered him, about which I had disdain.  I hollered, called him to the kitchen and asked him to call 911. I told him that I was having a stroke. He did. An ambulance came and off we went to the closest hospital, a 20 minute drive. The treating ER team got the larger regional state hospital on screen. The more senior doc there saw something they had not. She encouraged them to send me along to her larger hospital. They did. Thankfully. Had they not abided and given me standard-of-care treatment my brain would have been fully pickled in my own blood. My dry stroke was caused by a blood clot in the vessel called the circle of Willis with a dissection in the artery. This vessel typically rejoins the main carotid vessel. Mine does not. It terminates in the neck. Evident at this point was my birth defect of the malformation of this vessel. The clot blocked blood flow to my brain. My braib kick into hig hgear to preserve itself.  Upon arrival to the larger hospital I went straight to surgery where 3 stents were inserted and advanced and via my groin to my neck. They saved my life.

Thus began the hard work. I was released from Intensive Care to a regular hospital wing. Working to recover was the hardest I had ever worked at anything. It still is. 

I am so grateful for the opportunity to live and do work supporting people. 

I offer both in-person treatment and remote care; which you can access with the Google (free) Chrome browser here: https://patient.unifiedpractice.com/turning-point-acupuncture/booking/previous-visit. Other browsers have not been working well and cause system errors (we/they are working to resolve it, but we know now that Chrome does work. 

I'm openly obsessed with providing quality care.

I continue to serve you in your best possible health. 

Warmest regards and thanks,

Dr. Shane Hoffman