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.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Quality of life

From the earlier post of
- being worse than dead
0 dead
1 perfect health
http://www.oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/10/stroke-causes-60-loss-of-quality-years.html
This goes back to the problem of what you are comparing your current state to; The day prior to your stroke - Or the first day you woke up post stroke.  If I compare my physical condition  now to pre-stroke it would be a negative, I can practically do nothing easily that I could do before. If I compare physical self to the day after stroke I'm in perfect health. Mentally I'm in perfect health and probably for that reason alone my quality of life is great.  I was forced out of a job that was no longer satisfying and am now doing work I love. I left a marriage that was totally dysfunctional and have made friends with lots of new people in a new location. I have figured out where I'll spend most of my retirement.  And I have a challenging project to occupy my time for decades to come.
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  1. Elizabeth, John, Jack, and LukeOctober 13, 2013 at 5:52 PM

    Good for you!!! Conngratulations!! Sounds like you have done very with with the whole making lemonade from lemons. I'm still a work in progress. My fatigue is soooo limiting, it really affects my quality of life still at this point. I try to work with it and not let it consume me, but that is easier said than done, when I am not able to do much of what I want, when I want. Always hoping for a miracle...or I'll take continued gradual....SLOW... improvement.

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  2. 4C1ROctober 13, 2013 at 6:58 PM

    Thanks for explaining, Dean. It makes perfect sense.

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