,HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: , The patient is a 62-year-old African-American male with a significant past medical history of diabetes, hypertension, previous stroke in 2002 with minimal residual right-sided weakness as well as two MIs, status post pacemaker insertion who first presented with numbness in his lower extremities in 2001. 
,HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS : , The patient is a 62 - year - old African - American male with a significant past medical history of diabetes , hypertension , previous stroke in 2002 with minimal residual right - sided weakness as well as two MIs , status post pacemaker insertion who first presented with numbness in his lower extremities in 2001 .