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.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

When a Stressful Hospital Stay Makes You Sick

My stress was from not getting any information at all from my doctor. I had to ask him to tell me what CVA meant. It was as if I was an imbecile and wouldn't understand anything so why try to explain.
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/when-a-stressful-hospital-stay-makes-you-sick/
Some very important lines from the article;
“In many ways the hospital environment can be the opposite of healing,” Dr. Krumholz said.
1.  Beeping machines, 
2.  frequent needle sticks, (waking me up at 7am)
3.  unpredictable waits to see the doctor, 
4.  unappetizing food and (hire a damn nutritionist and create stroke specific meals)
5.  sleep deprivation are among the barrage of stressors he cites.
“The result is that hospitalized patients are often deconditioned, in pain, malnourished, stressed, with circadian disruptions,” he said. “And we ask why patients return to the hospital? Maybe it’s what we’ve done to them.”
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  1. J.L. MurpheyJune 13, 2014 at 6:22 AM

    7am blood draws? They always hit my room at 4am. They always wanted an echo cardiogram at between 3-5 am. X-ray studies between 9pm -midnight. Is it any wonder that I got more sleep at home.

    My hospital actually has decent food and an ala cart alternative although you have to ask for it. Dieticians and nutritionists on staff who actually came to your room.

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