u/WILLIAMADAMTHOMAS

I work in a manufacturing mill and I started showing symptoms of a stroke yesterday (10-9-26). Slurred speech, swollen tongue, blurred vision, pain on one side of my body.

I went to my supervisor and said I was feeling weird and I didn't know how to explain it. So she looked at me and said I don't know what to do? What should I do?

In my foggy mind I said I don't know. She replied with just go back to your job and leave me alone.

When I get home my wife saw me and rushed me to the hospital and now I'm sitting in a hospital bed.

Hello, ten years ago my sister in laws husband took off with their kids to Montana overnight and didn't tell anyone exactly where they were. So throughout the course of ten years they were involved with a cult where their main religious belief system was based on that of the Holiness movement. During which they lived 100% off grid where they relied on generators for power and farmed their own food. That part is not that bad; it's the punishment where it gets worse. The oldest son and the daughter would get beaten until they lost consciousness, then the middle child (who is also developmentally challenged due to him only having half of his brain) would be forced to stand at the threshold of the kitchen until someone saw him and spoke his name all because he was accident prone (sometimes they would take their time to recognize him especially if it was dinnertime). Then for some unknown reason about 6-7 years into it they all packed up and moved to Hawaii where the oldest son made everybody mad and was forced to live in a tent for a year. Until my sister in law was able to find them and reported her husband to DFACS which made him flee with the oldest son and the middle son back home to Georgia. But, after he got here the cult turned around and did the same thing to both of them here and caused the children to get taken away. Well, as of last week they had a court date in Hawaii and were able to travel there where the cult dropped the charges and gave them their kids back.

Since then three of the four kids have been talking and even wanting to go back to the cult. What I am wondering is how my wife and I can help my sister in law with the kids transition to where they are more comfortable around us? Also, my sister in law is in the process of getting them some therapy.