Deans' stroke musings: Sleeping on my stomach

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, December 15, 2013

Sleeping on my stomach

This was my normal course of sleeping pre-stroke. I would sleep on the left side of the bed with my nose hanging over the edge to get the best airflow past it. This morning I tried again. A major problem is how to roll over and still have the blankets covering your back when you are done. Trying it with my head facing right did not work, my neck muscles vociferously complained in 5 minutes. Facing left was better but not relaxing enough to fall asleep. If I don't calculate correctly my left arm will slide off the bed and very slowly fall to the floor, spasticity prevents free falling. The only way to get it back onto the bed is to roll onto my back thus completely tangling me up in the covers. The joys of stroke problem solving, you will never get anything like that from your therapists.