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.

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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, April 14, 2016

Health check

Had a heart catheterization today  just to check on some possible blockage in a heart artery. Nothing much was found so I didn't need a stent. Slight sedation was given, couldn't tell at all. So I broke the rule that you shouldn't drive for 24 hours to go to a food meetup group meeting at a bar/restaurant. Had a beer along with my healthy salmon burger. I was good, only had one beer - grapefruit IPA.  There seemed to be no prohibition against drinking in any of the paperwork I received. Probably overlooked because no one in their right mind would drink after being sedated. Don't follow anything I say/do. Didn't make my 10,000 steps today, the incision location in the groin does not feel like it would like to be jostled that much.

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  1. Barb PolanApril 14, 2016 at 12:52 PM

    My pre-surgery instructions 1 month ago included that I should "moderate" my alcohol consumption for 2 weeks before, but when I was released the day following surgery and given oxycodone for pain, no one told me to abstain from alcohol while taking it. So I completely abstained for the 2 weeks before, then took the painkillers for just 2 days post-surgery so that the 3rd day after, I could have 2 glasses of wine. I'm just saying: instructions are not always complete - or we're not reliable recipients/retainers of the instructions.

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    1. oc1deanApril 14, 2016 at 3:59 PM

      But I probably wouldn't listen to instructions anyway.

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