Because no one told me anything about my stroke I started looking on the web for info and the first thing I found were stroke forums with Q and As by survivors. I started participating, mainly by answering questions, the few I asked were not answered to my satisfaction. I ended up on 15 different forums around the world, eventually getting kicked out of 3 of them for various infractions. With a push from Peter Levine I started my own blog with some of the best answers I provided. With this freedom I could discuss anything about stroke and not care about offending anyone. When starting my goal was to have more pageviews than Peter, which I think I passed him after 2 years around 15,000 views. I can't tell anymore since Peter removed pageviews from his site. You set a goal in front of me and I will succeed at it. My physical therapist one time had me on a stationary bike with a racetrack program on it and challenged me to beat the other racer in the program. That set me off and I won the race. Don't do that unless your doctor thinks you can handle the exertion.
Now the whole purpose is to completely change the way stroke research, rehab and prevention is done. It switched to that after realizing that to get survivors to complete recovery you have to go much earlier in the process for interventions. And I do consider F.A.S.T. and tPA failures because those prevented finding hyperacute therapies that stop the neuronal cascade of death.
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