Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Is your stroke rehab half-full or half-empty?

I use this analogy in some of my posts and just today I was discussing this very topic with the owner of the lunch spot I was at.  The best comment I can give you is something my OT said to me. She said I was looking at my abilities all wrong, I was looking at what I could do the days before my stroke and comparing my current abilities to that. She was looking at my abilities in comparison to the first day she saw me lying paralyzed in a hospital bed. Her
viewpoint was that my glass was half full whereas my view was that the glass was half empty. I'm not a type A personality but all my planned recovery points were never met but I do feel more positive about my recovery because I try now to see how far I have risen rather than how far I have yet to go.
I try now to look down to see how far I have climbed rather than always looking ahead to see what is left to climb.
But hey, what do I know. Your psychiatrist should be doing this type of analysis, so ask them. Onward and upward my happy pills are coming. Woo hoo.
 This is a T-shirt from
http://www.snorgtees.com/t-shirts/technically-the-glass-is-always-full
Technically, The Glass Is Always Full
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