When a Canadian woman began to experience numbness on the left side of the body, she acted quickly to record her symptoms with a smartphone. The video of the episode helped convince her physician that she had a mini-stroke.

“I think it was just to show somebody, because I knew it was not stress-related," she said in an interview with CBC News. "And I thought if I could show somebody what was happening, they would have a better understanding."

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