WEBVTT JANUARY 13, STACI MYERS IS HAPPYTO BE HOME WITH HER HUSBANDROBERT AND HER DAUGHTER ZYLA A-- ZA, A THREE-YEAR-OLD THEYCALL A LIFE SAVER.STACI MYERS IS RESTING AT HOMEWITH HER PICTURE PERFECT FAMILYOF HUSBAND ROBERT AND DAUGHTERZYLA.>> YEAH SHE'S SPECIAMARCUS: BECAUSE OF HER ACTIONSON DECEMBER 17, A DAY ZYLA HASNOT FORGOTTEN.>> YEAH I DIDN'T HAVE MY ELSABLANKIE WITH ME.MARCUS: STACI SUFFERED A STROKEIN THE PARKING LOT AT ALDI'S SHEWAS ABLE TO CALL HER HUSBAND BUTDO LITTLE ELSE.THAT IS WHEN THIS 3-YEAR-OLD WASASKED TO DO SOME GROWN UPTHINGS.>> I ASKED IS SHE BREATHING, SHESAID I DON'T KNOW DADDY, I SAIDPUT YOUR HAND IN FRONT OF HERMOUTH SEE IF YOU CAN FEEL HERBREATHING.TOMMIE: ROBERT FOUND THE TWO INTHE PARKING LOT OF THE ALDIS ONSOUTH EAST STACI WAS TAKEN TO14TH.THE HOSPITAL WHERE IT WASDETERMINED STACI HAD BLEEDING ONTHE BRAIN CAUSED BY AN ABNORMALCONNECTION BETWEEN A MAIN ARTERYAND HER BRAIN, AND AVM, THATCAUSED HER STROKE.SHE HAS STARTED PHYSICALOCCUPATIONAL AND SPEECH THERAPY.>> THEY SAID SHE PROBABLY WONTEVER TALK AGAIN AND IF SHE DOESSHE'D HAVE A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT,AND SHE IS DOING AMAZING.TOMMIE: -- MARCUS: ROBERT WILL ALWAYSREMEMBER DECEMBER 17 NOT FORWHAT WENT WRONG BUT FOR WHATWHAT WENT RIGHT THAT HAS ALLOWED
Mother recovering from stroke; daughter, 3, lauded for heroic efforts
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Updated: 1:12 AM EST Jan 23, 2017
A woman who suffered a stroke in a grocery store parking lot the week before Christmas is recovering at her Des Moines home. Staci Myers, 25, suffered a stroke Dec. 17 in an Aldi's parking lot on Southeast 14th Street as she was running errands with her daughter, Zyla.Her husband, Robert Dalton, received a call from her around 6:15 p.m."First thing I said was, 'Thank God nothing bad happened to you,' and she just made moaning and groaning sounds," Dalton said. "And I started yelling her name in the phone."That's when Zyla picked up the phone to let her dad know where they were.Dalton feared the worst, so he recorded the conversation and ran out the door. Zyla was able to fill her dad in with everything that was going on."Honey, what's wrong with Mommy?" Dalton can be heard saying in the recording.When he arrived, Dalton found his wife had bleeding in her brain because of an abnormal connection between a main artery and her veins and AVM – in which less than 1 percent of the world’s population acquires -- which caused a stroke.Dalton estimates the two may have been in the car for over a couple of hours before help came.Myers is alive, Dalton said, because of their daughter."I just didn't want anything to happen to my wife," Dalton said. "I was scared. I didn't want her to grow up without a mom."Myers has been out of the hospital since Jan. 13 and has started physical, occupational and speech therapy. “They said she probably won’t ever talk again, and if she does, she’d have a speech impediment,” Dalton said. “She’s doing amazing.” Myers will meet with a neurologist on Wednesday to determine if the AVM is still present and if so, whether to treat it with medicine or surgery. The family has a GoFundMe pageto help raise money for medical costs.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A woman who suffered a stroke in a grocery store parking lot the week before Christmas is recovering at her Des Moines home.
Staci Myers, 25, suffered a stroke Dec. 17 in an Aldi's parking lot on Southeast 14th Street as she was running errands with her daughter, Zyla.
Her husband, Robert Dalton, received a call from her around 6:15 p.m.
"First thing I said was, 'Thank God nothing bad happened to you,' and she just made moaning and groaning sounds," Dalton said. "And I started yelling her name in the phone."
That's when Zyla picked up the phone to let her dad know where they were.
Dalton feared the worst, so he recorded the conversation and ran out the door. Zyla was able to fill her dad in with everything that was going on.
"Honey, what's wrong with Mommy?" Dalton can be heard saying in the recording.
When he arrived, Dalton found his wife had bleeding in her brain because of an abnormal connection between a main artery and her veins and AVM – in which less than 1 percent of the world’s population acquires -- which caused a stroke.
Dalton estimates the two may have been in the car for over a couple of hours before help came.
Myers is alive, Dalton said, because of their daughter.
"I just didn't want anything to happen to my wife," Dalton said. "I was scared. I didn't want her to grow up without a mom."
Myers has been out of the hospital since Jan. 13 and has started physical, occupational and speech therapy.
“They said she probably won’t ever talk again, and if she does, she’d have a speech impediment,” Dalton said. “She’s doing amazing.”
Myers will meet with a neurologist on Wednesday to determine if the AVM is still present and if so, whether to treat it with medicine or surgery.
The family has a GoFundMe pageto help raise money for medical costs.
