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.
I'm much more affected by my stroke than you are by yours, but what has worked for me for nearly 8 years has been using my kids' old tae kwon do belts, and tying one around my waist with a slip hitch, then putting my hand in the loop. Keeps me from banging it when I am not paying attention to it because I'm doing something like folding the laundry. My husband actually has to tie the knot, but I have to have help getting dressed so he's there anyway.
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