Deans' stroke musings: As one goes thru life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

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.

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.

Wednesday, July 6, 2022

As one goes thru life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move. - Katherine Hepburn

I was a very good whitewater canoeist. I could probably still do class II rapids in a solo open canoe with my excellent balance and rapids reading skills. But since I could never rescue myself by swimming a swamped canoe to shore with only one usable hand I won't ever be doing that again.

A common quote from my Dad; 'Up shit creek without a paddle'. Which is precisely what having a stroke is like. Zero EXACT knowledge from from your doctors and therapists, they know nothing concrete except excuses like;'All strokes are different, all stroke recoveries are different.' I feel like throwing them into Shit Creek.

The trophies are from the Buttercup series of whitewater slalom races(6 races in Wisconsin and Minnesota).

Left is 1rst place OC1(Open Canoe 1 person) 2004

Middle is 2nd place OC1(Open Canoe 1 person) 2003

Right is 3rd place OC1(Open Canoe 1 person) 2005

Missing are the two first place finishes in OC2(Open Canoe 2 person) in consecutive years with different paddling partners, they have the trophies.

Well shit, I was in fantastic shape when I had my stroke, exercise probably caused my stroke. The week before my stroke I was on a 6 day whitewater canoe trip in Canada, class III+. Dog River, Ontario(23 miles and dropping 1050 feet with a 1.5 mile portage around a 120 ft. waterfall). We only portaged 5 times. 3 years post-stroke at a physical I had a resting heart rate of 54 at age 53, meaning I had the cardiovascular fitness of an athlete, even with doing no exercise for 3 years. I was in shape.

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Deans' stroke musings