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, May 27, 2014

Driving challenges

I got a late start on the drive back to Minnesota, somehow missed the exit to interstate 80 which bypasses most of Chicago. So I ended up driving in rush hour traffic through Chicago just knowing in a general idea where to go. Even so it cut an hour off my driving time and only cost an extra $8.50.  It's quite the sensation overload driving in such traffic. The drive back had numerous rainstorms and nighttime driving with the wipers at high speed and raindrops exploding on the sheets of water covering the road made it extremely hard to see the traffic lane you were supposed to be driving in.


Found out my sense of when the car is on the edge of losing control is intact. I passed a pickup truck  by going into the right lane during a rainstorm just so I could see the road ahead. 90 mph was the point at which it was imperative to start slowing down. This sense has been quite useful driving in winter in Michigan.


The whole point of going to MN for the weekend was to check out the two storage lockers I was renting that my ex was putting my stuff into. A 5x15 costing $90 a month and a 10x20 costing $200 a month. I thought I was going to put everything into the larger locker but when we checked out the large one it only had 2 sea kayaks in it, my friend volunteered his garage to store them for now.  And I picked up my Wellies for mucking about in the flooded trails I'm clearing. Snowshoes also came back, I steamed and bent these myself, real rawhide for the webbing.


This is my wrist holding the steering wheel. Contrary to first impressions the natural spasticity causes the wheel to turn counterclockwise, I spend  all my time making sure my right hand counteracts that force. For extremely short periods of time I can control it enough to change CDs or drink some coffee with a straw, straw because it doesn't require me to tip my head back. My elbow is on the gel pad attached to the arm rest which forces my lats to relax.  It was glued and velcroed on which of course will destroy the fabric.

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  1. Barb PolanMay 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM

    You broke so many of my sell-imposed driving rules: no rush hour, no nighttime, no bad weather, no unreasonable speed (65 max). I'm like a little old lady out there.

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