I was sitting in Starbucks with a good friend of mine from church talking about life and such (we’ll call him John). John’s a black male approximately 50 years old. He’s a realtor, a very good realtor with many clients. He’s done a great job building up a name for himself in the real estate industry around Dallas. John was a healthy guy it seemed, solid as a rock! However, you just never really know what’s going on behind the scenes do you? The next time I would see John would be six months later being pushed in a wheelchair by his wife with only half his body working. I was in complete shock. John had had a stroke.

  Stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident, and most recently referred to as “brain attack...