First came a high fever, drenching sweats and muscle aches. Then, almost a month later, a weird numbness that spread down the right side of her body.
Darlene Gildersleeve of Hopkinton, N.H., thought she had recovered from COVID-19. Doctors said the 43-year-old mother of three just needed rest. And for several days, no one suspected her worsening symptoms were related — until a May 4 video call, when her physician heard her slurred speech and consulted a specialist.
“You’ve had two strokes,’’ a neurologist told her at the hospital.