u/No_Bar8686

Backstory:

My mum had an incident at work last Friday where a milk cage fell on her. She immediately felt sick and threw up multiple times at work and begged to go home (we’re suing her workplace for all the malpractice that happened,) she got my older brother to pick her up from work and get a cab home and she threw up the whole journey. I found out on Saturday, and immediately said that it didn’t sound right and that she needed to attend a&e - I was thinking something spinal or brain.
She got my dad to take her to a&e on Monday after feeling “better” on the Sunday and they found a bleed on the brain. She got blue lighted to a speciality hospital and they identified the stroke which happened due to the incident.

I have two main questions:

1. HOW can a force like a milk cage “cause” a stroke? She’s been under immense pressure since her father died in October last year also.
2. How can I help such an independent and impatient woman that needs rest after a stroke?! I went to her home today and helped with everything I could, but she insisted on going to the shop. She also insisted on doing the dishes, on top of showering and washing her hair!

She had a wobble once I left hers tonight due to the exertion, her BP rose and she was shaking like a leaf according to my dad. I refuse to lose her to her impatience, please help.

Edit to add: she had no physical issues from the stroke, apart from being shaky on her legs and needing to hold things to walk. She’s mainly incredibly forgetful after the stroke.

Very new to filet crochet, I had some leftover cotton “DK” yarn (definitely wasn’t, was much thinner and split at every given opportunity) and used that up with a sword filet crochet pattern with a 2.5mm hook. I’ve now run out until I can buy more, but I’ve got thicker acrylic DK yarn that I want to make a new pattern with - the problem is that the filled in blocks aren’t as obvious as the other yarn made, even with a 2.5mm hook. Any advice please?

Edit: I’ll be able to post a picture of pattern and work later, also I know it’s going to turn out much bigger than if I used thinner yarn