Deans' stroke musings: Driving rehab again

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, June 18, 2013

Driving rehab again - NO

My company sent me down to Tampa for the week to work on a clients problem. I was allowed to rent a car. The plan was to remove the spinner knob from my car in the airport parking lot and take it along to fasten to the rental car. I get to the rental car and pull out the parts and 20 minutes later realize that it requires 2 useable hands to install. I finally say the hell with it and spend the next 15 minutes programming the Hertz NeverLost GPS, what a piece of shit. It only took me 30 minutes to drive 10 minutes away. With power steering controlling the car was not a problem. It required more planning and cognition than normal but was still easily doable. I would put my right hand between 3 and 6 o'clock to have one of the spokes always close to the hand. Drove over the Sunshine bridge which was bizarre because it felt like you were on this continuous road into the sky.

Don't even think of following in my stupidity.

2 comments:

Barb PolanJune 19, 2013 at 4:51 PM
Hi Dean, The first driving test I took, I took without any adaptive equipment - just brazened it out. Of course I failed. A knob and a directional diverter later, I passed. I know, though, that I can do without; not legally, but I'm physically capable of it - rotaries and all. BTW, when I drive to OT now, it takes me an hour to a place that, before stroke, took me 35 minutes. Acceptable, but I have to pay close attention to the clock before I go.
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