Deans' stroke musings: Tuna sandwich stroke rehab

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 16, 2014

Tuna sandwich stroke rehab

We bring in sandwiches for lunch to the Winnipeg Folk Festival. The first day Greg makes tuna ones with lettuce, zucchini and avocados. They are packed in quart ziploc bags. The tuna was only 1.5 inches high. I was at one of the sessions by myself so it was up to me to solve all the problems. Teeth work well for holding the bag while you pull out the sandwich in one piece. I'm slouched in a stadium chair while doing this. I immediately realize I will need to eat the sandwich in one sitting since I will never be able to successfully set it down and pick it up again one-handed. My first bite spills out 3-4 chunks of tuna on my chest. I will have to look stupid to the persons around me for the next 15 minutes since I can't pick up those chunks until I'm done. By the time I'm done I have 12 + pieces of tuna and veggies arranged across my chest. The next day was veggie burgers, much neater. Tuna again on the third day, but only 1 inch high, I was quite neat that day. Even though it was hot and I was thirsty I would have to wait until completely done with the sandwiches before water could be consumed.