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Amelia Adamo thought the dizziness was harmless – but she had had a TIA.
Now the newspaper queen has changed her lifestyle and realized that she is not immortal.
– I’m afraid it will happen again, she says.
Amelia Adamo, 75, writes in a column in Amelia magazine that earlier this year she suffered a TIA, a transient ischemic attack.
“Then I don’t remember much more than that I got a single room at Bollnäs hospital and had wires all over my body,” she writes.
Today the danger is over and the fact that she wrote the column at all was pure information.
– It is so unknown how to behave if you are hit. As soon as you feel something in your heart or arm, you go to the hospital. But when you have a TIA, you may not understand what it is. Common people don’t understand that there is a rush, Amelia tells Aftonbladet.
Did ACUT test
Her partner Lucio was the first to notice that something was not right.
– Lucio saw how I wobbled around so he took me under the arm, he thought I was going to go straight into the swing in which he was swinging a grandchild. So this was in the morning and he didn’t make that connection. He thought I was just dizzy and I thought so too.
– The one who thought I answered strangely and who also thought I sounded a bit slurred was the daughter-in-law. She did an AKUT test and thought I answered poorly. So she called 911, and of course I am eternally grateful for that. You don’t want to have a stroke.
Rush to the infirmary
Since the family was in Järvsö, they rushed to Bollnäs hospital. Amelia had to stay there for two days because of the risk of a stroke. She was given antihypertensive and blood-thinning medication. And has realized that she is not immortal.
– I really think that I live quite healthily. Of course I drink my whiskey and I don’t always walk those 10,000 steps. But basically I think I represent the “50 is the new 70 generation” who still have a decent lifestyle. But so little is known.
“Became a hell of a life”
– When covid came and everyone over 70, the fragile ones, had to go home, I wrote that it doesn’t apply to me, I’m 53. Then it became a hell of a life. Among other things, Agnes Wold said that “Amelia Adamo’s lungs are 73”. And it is the case that the body inside is 73 even if you feel healthy. Unfortunately, my blood vessels are not 50, they are also now 75 years old.
Have you changed your lifestyle now? Or do you just drive on?
– Above all, I changed one thing at once and that was the job. I’ve turned down some things because of this. Most likely, it was the case that this tian is related to stress. The night before this happened, I’d had a shitty night of complete idiot anxiety. I don’t generally have the best sleep in the world so I’m quite used to being sleep deprived. But this particular night before, there were unusually many waking moments with anxiety.
– When this was over, I thought that I want to have peace of mind so that I don’t get so stressed.
Have you finished your evening whiskey?
– It is still there, but I spread it out with more water and ration it a little. It won’t be seven days a week.
– You don’t know why my vessel complained again, they didn’t see anything.
“Female behavior”
Are you afraid it will happen again?
– Yes it’s me. That was really an ice-cold kiss that felt. I have not been a person who worried about such things. I worry about the performance, but not about my health.
– When I came home from the hospital, my grandchildren said “but grandma, you haven’t died”. No, I intend to live at least another ten years.