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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 15, 2019

Rehab failures at Stanfest, Stan Rogers Folk Festival, Canso Nova Scotia

Lots of things that were never covered in my needed ADLs.

Tent dressing. I obviously didn't do enough bridging exercises, trying to get on pants and underwear laying on your back one-handed is nigh impossible. At Winnipeg Folk Festival I just throw my clothes out the tent and go to the picnic shelter tables to get dressed. At Stanfest there are no tables to do that. And since I have a small one person tent I hit the sides a lot rolling around. 

 

Carrying food and drink in one pass. With the complete failure to have any useful carrying ability with the left hand I have to either make multiple trips or balance food on top of the coffee cup. The 20 yard walk with my desserts balanced on the cup was successful but very slow.

Rolling up tent fly. The toggle connectors on the tent are challenging to do one handed. Holding the tent flap in place while slipping the toggle into its loop required many passes before success. I didn't have to do the last resort thing and bite the tent flap in place to attach the toggle. 

Eating Pad Thai with chopsticks. I forgot that this comes with long noodles and no way to shorten them, chopsticks were the only utinsils available.  Since I wanted to listen to music while eating this meant putting it in my lap in my stadium chair and leaning over the bowl was difficult since my butt has sunk two inches lower into the chair. Luckily no one was watching me spill bits of Pad Thai over my shirt

 

All these problems are ruining my social life.

 

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  1. Geoff.WenkerAugust 16, 2019 at 11:21 AM

    Dean,
    I have not tried camping in the 6 years since stroke, which is tough, since I have camped & traveled in vans or RV's all my life. In the years prior to stroke, I really enjoyed motorcycle camping with my son and friends. I do think I could handle almost everything needed to travel in a motorhome and planning to rent one this fall as a test. For any picnic type activities I always bring my own camp chair w/ side table:
    https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S57QEIM/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

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