Missy Campbell's long medical journey isn't over, but at least she's back home in Evangeline Parish.
Campbell, 32, suffered a stroke while scouting hunting camps on Larto Lake with her husband, T.J. Campbell, a few days after Thanksgiving 2011.
Missy had the day off from her job as a nurse near Pine Prairie, so she joined T.J. for the trip even though she'd been complaining of a bad headache.
"I remember thinking I'd never had a headache like that before," Missy said. Even her eyes began hurting.
By mid-afternoon they hadn't found a camp to buy, so they stopped at a gas station to get hamburgers and medicine for her headache.
T.J. said he knew something was wrong when he heard her order her burger. "I remember plain as day," T.J. said. "She said `pickles' weird."
He thought maybe the medicine she'd taken was bad. Then he looked at her.
"I could see in her face something was wrong," he said. The left side of her face was drooping slightly and she was drooling.
"She kept saying her head hurt, and she couldn't hardly stand anymore," he said.
He said it all happened very fast and was especially scary because Missy didn't know what was happening to her. He expected her to know because she was a nurse.
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