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.

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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.

Friday, November 30, 2012

Opening a 2 quart plastic bottle

One of my challenges, I had to compensate to do it.  I'm buying 2 quart V8 or tomato juice bottles to have something to drink around the house instead of soda. Lycopene you know. They have these indentations in the side to easily hold(hah) and pour it. I'm trying to just open the cap. I tried and tried to get my left hand open enough to grab the bottle that way - failed. I need at least three other hands, one to hold the thumb open, one to open the other four fingers and the last to hold the bottle upright.  The other possibility - hold the bottle with the right hand and grab and twist the cap open with the left hand didn't work either. My left hand can't close tight enough to grab something that small. Finally took a knife and ran it around the cap, separating the cap from the ring. Then it was to the Tommye K. Mayer method of using your hip as a support. I braced the bottle against the countertop and used my hip to hold it in place, using my right hand to unscrew the top. This is a delicate operation since you have to determine the stiffness of the plastic bottle so you don't spray the juice all over as the top is removed.  Or I could just get a large vise-grip and straddle the bottle with my feet. The cap is too big to grab with my teeth. I hate having to compensate.
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  1. Marcelle GreeneDecember 1, 2012 at 1:36 PM

    Several times I tried to open a plastic Gatorade bottle by sitting down and holding it between my legs so I could turn the top with my good hand. But I had to squeeze the bottle with my legs to hold it still, and I ended up with wet pants when the top came off. Now I ask my husband to crack all the bottle tops before he puts them in the fridge.

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