Doctors: stroke patients waiting for new stent treatment

AUSTIN (KXAN) — No warning and a stroke can strike. It happened to one Austin woman, whose only treatment is a stent that is not on the market yet.
Heatherly McDaniel, 41, knew something was off the day she had a stroke in April last year. Her then 16-year-old daughter recognized the slurred speech and numbness on one side.
“She looked at the situation and she said, ‘This is out of character for our mother,'” McDaniel said. “The only thing she could think