{"id":155997,"date":"2019-10-29T16:59:06","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T20:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=155997"},"modified":"2019-10-30T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-30T14:05:01","slug":"stroke-survivor-returns-promised-dance-nurse-uconn-john-dempsey-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/10\/stroke-survivor-returns-promised-dance-nurse-uconn-john-dempsey-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Stroke Survivor Returns for Promised Dance with His Nurse at UConn John Dempsey Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through their hard work and dedication nurses save lives every day, but it\u2019s not often that their patients come back to fulfill the promise of a dance with his nurse.<\/p>\n<p>After suffering an acute stroke, Richard Hopkins, 88 of West Simsbury, underwent a mechanical thrombectomy procedure to remove blood clot from his brain at UConn John Dempsey Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He subsequently recuperated in state-of-the-art neuro-intensive care unit at UConn John Dempsey Hospital; while recovering he promised his intensive care nurse, Kellie Macpherson, that he would be back to dance with her when he was well.<\/p>\n<p>Six months later on <strong>World Stroke Day, Oct. 29,<\/strong> he fulfilled that promise and joined by his daughters, danced with Kellie to the Tennessee Waltz.<\/p>\n<p>He had been practicing this dance with his physical therapist and couldn\u2019t wait for this day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Stroke Survivor Returns for Promised Dance with His Nurse\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V6tD8RO_0SE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Dr. Sanjay Mittal, director of the Stroke Program at UConn Health, clot removal is a therapeutic option at all ages in select patients with acute ischemic stroke, this procedure is routinely offered to stroke patients at UConn Health.<\/p>\n<p>Richard and his family are so grateful to the doctors, nurses and staff at UConn Health for saving his life and giving him the opportunity to dance again.<\/p>\n<p>In Richard\u2019s words \u201cthank you for taking a chance on an 88 year old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 29, World Stroke Day, Richard Hopkins, 88 of West Simsbury who survived a dangerous stroke, returned to UConn John Dempsey Hospital six months after recovering from stroke surgery to keep a promise to his ICU nurse &#8211; a celebratory dance to the Tennessee Waltz. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":98,"featured_media":155999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2193,1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1873],"class_list":["post-155997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hartford-county","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-11 03:58:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/98"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/155999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155997"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=155997"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=155997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}