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.

Sunday, September 9, 2018

Mighty trophy tree hunter

A friend needed a branch cut down. Being the over confident idiot I am, I said sure I can do it. I'll bring my battery chainsaw and other pruning saws.A 12 foot extension ladder was propped up against the tree and my chainsaw handed to me, got a third of the way thru before the battery quit, it is a battery that no longer seems to hold a charge. It is quite challenging forcing a reluctant left hand open enough to grab the top bar of the chainsaw and still stay in place on the ladder. Finished cutting thru the branch, maybe 9 inches thick, with my 13 inch pruning saw. It fell wedging itself upright against the trunk three feet below the top of the ladder. Good thing it didn't swing out and fall all the way, it would have knocked the ladder down. Cut off one of the branches sticking in the ground and pulled it all the way down. Borrowed a neighbors plug in electric chainsaw and cut the limb into 16 inch pieces for firewood. Felt good to be useful once again. Dangerous as all get out but that is me. I had a summer job for 6 years as a steeplejack, the reason I got the job was because the previous employee died when he fell from the top of a steeple when he was trying to unrig the ropes.

Don't follow me, I'm stroke addled.

End result

End result

half the branches pile

Finally totally on the ground

The light post survived

Wedged three feet down from cutoff point

Most of the small branches removed, the two limbs on the ground and the base wedged against the trunk kept it upright 

Successful tree branch hunt

  
Trophy pose

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  1. Barb PolanSeptember 12, 2018 at 10:00 AM

    As impressive as this story is, I'm still not confident enough to climb a two-step step stool to scrape paint off water-damaged plaster. Plus the fact Tom would never-ever allow it.

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