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.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Damn I've gained weight

My image of myself as a fit person has taken huge hits over the last month. In Italy I found my neck size was no longer 16.5 - I actually knew that a long time ago  from an inability to button my neck collar button, I chalked it up to trying to do it one-handed. It was measured by a tailor at 17.5. I've started  buying clothes at thrifts to save money, good thing since  my waist pre-stroke was 35, post-stroke I had to jump to 36 to accommodate the one-handed buttoning needs. Just recently bought some 36x34s and one 38x34 at a thrift. Damn I'm only able to get the 38 inch buttoned with one hand. I chalk it up to  joining a bunch of meetup groups and getting together for dinner and then a couple of beers afterwards. It was worth it to get socially connected.  Pre-stroke I would have just increased my physical activity to solve that problem. Now its more about reducing calories since increasing activity levels is pretty much at my max already.  I will not lower myself to start drinking low-calorie beer, that swill will not touch my lips.
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  1. Barb PolanMarch 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM

    This aftermath of stroke is a bear for me: being active enough to maintain my weight wasn't easy before, but doable. Since then, though, I can only despise myself as buttoning my jeans gets harder. It helps to hang them on a line, not put them in the dryer. Just as you won't drink lo-cal beer, I will not buy larger jeans.

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