In a Twitter post urging women to know the signs of the disease, the singer said she suffered a migraine for three days last year, which wasn't unusual. She had just turned 48.
After dropping her sons off to school, she went to the emergency room at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital, where doctors performed tests and confirmed what she had suspected -- that she had a stroke.
"I sort of knew it. What I had been experiencing with that headache and leading up to that headache was different. I'd even said aloud to myself in the bathroom mirror, 'Did you have a stroke?'"
That was a year ago Friday -- and she's OK now, the 49-year-old said.
"The reason I'm sharing this is so you all might take a moment to refresh your understanding of stroke and the symptoms of stroke," Wright wrote. "Pay attention to your body and encourage your loved ones to do the same."
Spotting the early signs of a stroke and getting help quickly can reduce longterm effects. Symptoms include face drooping, arm weakness, speech difficulty, sudden numbness in the legs, confusion or trouble seeing, dizziness, loss of balance and a sudden severe headache.
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