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.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014

Blood donation and stroke rehab

Today was my first time. I wasn't worried about the blood draw, I was worried about getting the bandaid off the right arm. She looked at the left arm but since it requires being able to squeeze a soft rubber ball to make your veins bulge, that was a failure. So right arm it was and even though I requested no bandaid I got one because another person came to finish me up. After the bandaid goes on it is wrapped with this stretchy, sticky elastic to make sure it stays on. I managed to get that red wrapping started off by rubbing it on my car door corner. That now left about an inch dangling, enough to get my teeth on it to pull off 4 inches. And since it was wrapped around my arm I had to shut the car door on that 4 inch length to get it unwrapped all the way.  I did ask back at the blood draw station to remove the small bandaid after lunch. I can't get my teeth deep enough into the crook of my elbow. Feeling ok.
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