Ashley Franklin Keene was only in her early 40s when a blood clot in her brain and blockages in her carotid artery caused her to suffer a stroke. Ashley was flown from Jena, LA to Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans for emergency surgery, where she was discharged only four days later.
Ashley says, "I was walking at Ochsner two days after my stroke and eating the next day and I started talking two months later. Now I walk and talk and play piano every day. I'm trying and improving every day. I have a different purpose now and I want to encourage others who have had strokes to take it one day at a time."