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, September 26, 2019

Microwave challenges

Microwaves are built for two handed use. One hand to open the door, one hand to put the food in or out. Since my microwave is above my stove, it is totally impossible for me to use the correct way.

  1. I might be able to get my left arm  to my shoulder height but not while doing anything else.

  2. I can't get my hand to open under any circumstances unless my right hand prys it open.

  3. If I place my left hand around the handle with my good right hand, the only way I can get it off is by either tearing off the door or pulling the complete microwave off the shelf. 

I see no help in solving this until my spasticity is completely cured, so the rest of my life will be spent compensating for that spasticity. Another 40 years. Half my life will be spent dealing with stroke deficits.  A lot of people would go into a full blown depression just thinking about that. And our stroke medical professionals and fucking failures of stroke associations are not helping solve this.  

I blame that lack of spasticity cure directly at Dr. William M. Landaus' feet because of this totally misguided crapola of his.


Spasticity After Stroke: Why Bother? Aug. 2004 

Good stroke leadership from survivors and a strategy could have gotten around  his blockade. Schadenfreude would be too good for him. 

 

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  1. John FreemanSeptember 26, 2019 at 10:20 PM

    Dean, I have two different microwaves that I can operate one handed. One has a big button than opens the door. On the other one, I can just pull the door open. You might investigate different brands of microwaves.

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    1. oc1deanSeptember 26, 2019 at 11:14 PM

      As a renter I have no option. Just trying to illustrate the problems stroke survivors have, with no solution.

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