I know I had a stroke on my birthday in 2014 and I had a lot of trouble speaking and breathing the choking fits were driving my mother insane, I was crawlling on the floor choked up and I was patting the woollen blanket over the footstool seriously believing it was my cat, I was so out of it. and I woke to this blackout thing I call it its like suddenly you forget how to breath and I was gagging and I had to hit my mother to wake her and I trying to scream "I can't breath" and I was choking and sluring bombed out and its like I would not give into sleep in fear of dying in my sleep, i felt like I was going into a coma it was scary. I just have vague flashes of the lady on the emergency trying to keep me talking and awake til the ambulance got to the door and it was so awful. I just don't ever want to feel that ever again. it was hell.