Deans' stroke musings: Amtrak travel

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, August 29, 2019

Amtrak travel

I'm traveling from Michigan to Salt Lake City via Amtrak. My carryon weighs about 50 lbs since it contains 6 bottles of wine. Pretty sure the selection of wine in Utah is pretty bad. Had to have a youngster hoist it into the overhead. I managed to get it down by bouncing it on the seat.

I started out in shorts and a short sleeve shirt. With the continuous air conditioning I knew sleeping in the coach seat would be impossible. Regular travelers bring blankets. In my manbag I had a pair of pants and jacket. Went to the bathroom to change, none were labeled handicapped, so I had a 2 by 2 foot floor space to change in. I have to sit and cross my legs to get pants and shoes on. With size 12 feet taking up most of the floor there was much swearing to get into warmer clothes. I had an aisle seat, so easy access out to the bathroom and observation car. It was on the left side so I had to forcefully grab my left arm all the time to keep it from wandering into my neighbors space. Doing that while sleeping is a challenge.

But the leg room is terrific, maybe 1.5 feet in front of my knees as compared to flying where my knees are buried in the seat back in front of me, which is why I can no longer sleep on planes.

Life is great.

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Deans' stroke musings