First person: When my stroke hit, MARTA and Grady showed Atlanta at its best

Editor’s note: Louis Mayeux is a veteran Atlanta journalist. This is his first-person account of his stroke: The speed of the attack surprised me. One moment, I stood in the Lenox MARTA Station, reloading my Breeze card. The next, I couldn’t understand the machine’s instructions. My mind had blown a fuse, unable to process the…