I just got out of the hospital after what we thought was a TIA. It's been diagnosed by a neurologist as a migraine with fortification aura followed by dyslexia, followed by aphasia, all of which developed, increased, and resolved and disappeared within 90 minutes. There was never a headache at all. Two hours later I was reading Marcus Aurelius again.
At 59 and in excellent health, I've never had a migraine before and never heard of anything like this -- painless, but also involving language centers. Can you give me any insight into what just happened to me?
I'm a novelist and even the temporary loss of language skills was scary. Is this likely to recur?




