Deans' stroke musings: “I Should Be Closer To God Because of This”—A Case Study of Embodied Narratives and Spiritual Reconstruction in Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation

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, March 19, 2015

“I Should Be Closer To God Because of This”—A Case Study of Embodied Narratives and Spiritual Reconstruction in Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation

Well they could write up a case study on me and it would come to the complete opposite conclusion. A statement from my parents that 'God doesn't give you anything more than you can handle'. A God that is that evil tipped me completely into atheism and I relied on my own internal strengths to get where I am today.

“I Should Be Closer To God Because of This”—A Case Study of Embodied Narratives and Spiritual Reconstruction in Spinal Cord Injury and Stroke Rehabilitation

DOI:: 10.1080/23312521.2014.990551

Robert Mundle^a^*

pages 30-49

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Published online: 12 Mar 2015

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Abstract

This instrumental case study demonstrates the need for patients to be able to draw upon their own spiritual and religious vocabularies in order to reconstruct narrative self-continuity in the wake of debilitating illness. Through the presentation of case material taken from a series of semi-structured interviews with a 77-year-old female Roman Catholic patient who suffered a crisis of faith following a spinal cord injury and a stroke, the author illustrates key aspects of life history and religious beliefs and practices—such as lives of the saints, devotions, mystical experiences, sacred time, sacred symbols, and sacred space—to engage narrative ethics around typologies and therapeutic plots supplied by others. Narrative analysis of such discursive resources from the perspective of spiritual health can help inter-professional healthcare teams understand more fully patient needs and holistic best practices within rehabilitation environments.