Core Wellness Chiropractic / Dr. Richard M. Soukup

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

10/29/2025

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10/23/2025

Maddy was about to take her AP calculus exam when the left side of her body went numb. A teacher helped her into the hallway and called the school nurse as Maddy tried to process what was happening.

"Can I really not feel this side of my body?" she thought. "Is this just stress over the big exam?" Or maybe a migraine: Maddy had a history of migraines that caused numbness and tingling in her extremities.

Her dad John arrived and called her neurologist. An MRI revealed that Maddy was having a stroke.

Her biggest fear initially was how the stroke might impact her senior year. "What's the earliest I can be back in school?" she asked her doctors. "Softball starts in two months. There's no way I'm missing it."

Maddy's youth and overall health helped her recover quickly. She was back in school the following week.

Tests done at the hospital revealed that Maddy's stroke likely stemmed from a previously undiagnosed heart defect she'd had since birth: a hole in her heart that didn't close on its own called a patent foramen ovale. Before the softball season, Maddy underwent a procedure to close the hole.

Two years later, Maddy is a sophomore at the University of Buffalo, pursuing a career in biomedical engineering.

"Seeing what was possible was eye-opening. Like, holy cow, medicine and engineering have come such a long way and are going to go even farther," Maddy said. "It got me excited to start college and see what I can do to impact this world in terms of medical devices and medical engineering."

She is also passionate about spreading awareness that strokes can happen at any age. "This isn't supposed to happen to 18-year-olds," she recalls telling her parents. "We've got to let more people know about this."

10/23/2025

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10/10/2025