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Fast, rather. the f. is for face. does your smile droop on one side. a. is for arms. does one drift downwards. s. is for speech, is it slurred or strange. and then the t. is time. i can't emphasize this enough. that you want to get to these quickly. sometimes, you know, there is incredible treatments they can give you. but if you're too late, they can't give to you. and i'm glad to say that stacy has shared she is doing great now. but it's -- you know, this is scary stuff. you don't want to mess around with a stroke. and i will be honest, it makes me crazy when i hear about e.r.s patting peopl...

Side. >> never seen anything like this. stacy jepis was having a mini stroke. she joins me live from toronto. cnn medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, we'll talk to you in a minute. but first, stacy, first, welcome to you. my goodness. i read that you actually had three of these mini strokes. three days in a row. and just let's back up. when you first went to the hospital, what did they say to you? >> well, they ran some testing, and at the end of the three-and-a-half hours of being there, they came out and told me that it was stress and that i needed to learn to manage my stress. >> and wh...

Be able to show somebody what was happening. because i knew this wasn't stress. you know, having been to emergency, i was so shocked that a doctor dismissed it as stress. and yet everything that i can recall from public service announcements and things that i've seen on tv, i knew they were stroke symptoms. >> good for you. i mean, elizabeth cohen, you talk all of the time about being an empowered patient. i have you as my voice in my head so she followed her gut. she knew it, and tends up it was suffering tias. what is that? >> that is a transient ischemic attack, and it's in layman's terms, ...

>> i'm feeling good. i, you know, sought treatment at another hospital and was referred to the unit at toronto western. and so i'm being followed by them and monitored and on medication now. to keep this at bay and to prevent any future stroking. >> thank goodness. stacy, we wish you well. quickly, elizabeth, recent studies, i'm hearing about young people and specifically women having strokes. >> yes, some showing that over a 15-year period, a tripling in the rate of strokes for young women. one of the reasons might be just the increase in obesity. a stroke is a brain attack. so whatever would...