On a Sunday night in January 2013 I was exercising and enjoying playing hockey with friends, which I have done since I was 5 years old. I finished the game and went home to prepare for work the next day and then went to bed. In the middle of the night I suffered a massive stroke on the left side of my brain from a dissected carotid artery, due to a hit to my throat by a hockey stick. I didn’t know what was happening to me until I arrived at the hospital…