Deans' stroke musings: Stroke survivior earns a courage award

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, November 21, 2019

Stroke survivior earns a courage award

Recovery should not require courage. Your doctor and stroke hospital should have all the skills and stroke protocols that get you 100% recovered. Starting with stoppingthe 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week.

Not getting you 100% recovered is failure on your doctor and stroke hospitals part.

Stroke survivior earns a courage award

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Madonna Rehabilitation Hospital awarded stroke survivor Dave Melvin a courage award after volunteering his time to help other survivors.
Melvin had a stroke in 2016 and began rehab at Madonna. After his rehab, he wanted to help other people recover from their strokes.
"I was just very surprised," Melvin said. "I was told I was going to talk to another stroke survivor that was having a hard time. So I was looking forward to see if I couldn't help them."
According to the hospital, Melvin has put in more than 1,000 hours of volunteer work.
His wife, Terri, said she's always been proud of her husband for doing volunteer work.
"He's worked so very hard over the last three years. He never thought he was going to be a social butterfly, but he has truly been so good with patients," Terri said.
Melvin was nominated for the award by another stroke survivor - the first person to receive the award.