The mother of the Jonas Brothers, Denise Jonas, has revealed she recently suffered a stroke.
Denise, who is mum to Kevin, Joe, Nick and Franklin Jonas, shared the news on an upcoming episode of the Got It From My Momma podcast.
“It was what you call a basal ganglia, which affected my cognitive thinking, my speech, reasoning,” she explained.
“If I’m tired or hungry, I can fumble my words around and not think of the right words. Sometimes I can’t remember if it’s this or that.”
Before her diagnosis, Jonas admitted she was experiencing a series of prior symptoms.
“The symptoms that I had were that my blood pressure had been high. I had gone to three different doctors over the course of six months prior. I woke up feeling like my arms are weird…. at certain times I would have difficulty with my speech.”
Jonas also woke up with hiccups one morning, which she has come to learn is “the most missed symptom” of strokes in women.
“You won’t hear about it, but when I Googled it, it was the first thing that came up,” she shared. “Then, when I had gotten up to go to the restroom, I had a glass of water next to the sink. I was trying to get a glass of water and the movement wouldn’t happen. I was telling my hand, but my hand wasn’t listening to my brain.
“Although I had this health scare, I always say it was probably the best thing that happened to me,” she concluded.
“I feel like it was a gift from the Lord. I don’t think most people say that about something, but it caused me to really be still.”
