Deans' stroke musings: Ice storm Michigan

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.

Friday, February 24, 2023

Ice storm Michigan

We had freezing rain two nights ago, it put about 3/8ths inch ice on the exposed surfaces.

Yesterday when walking in the woods the temps hit mid 30's which meant it was raining a lot with copious amounts of ice falling from the trees, looking like snow falling.

Tried out my new winter boots; Baffin Yolos. They have an easy one handed pull lacing system. I only need to hook one of my left hand fingers into the top loop while I slide down the lock mechanism with my good hand. Much better than my other winter boots with velcro straps. And no extra wool socks needed, always hated the sloppy feel of Sorel boots. Got cord locks from Amazon here, will be converting my hiking boots to this system with parachute cord.

DIFFWAY Cord Locks and End Clips for No Tie Shoelaces, Heavy Duty Toggle Stoppers for Drawstrings

The slide in the center of the picture, the end cap at the bottom.

Fairly small, no waffle stomper tread that picks up snow and mud and carries it into the house

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About 1 inch deep of fallen ice from tree branches

Beautiful looking trails, warm enough not to be slippery

I had to clear a few of these from the trail, luckily the only big tree down was off the trail.

The pant legs cover the tops of the boots, will need to get gaiters yet for deep snow. Notice the spasticity of the left arm preventing it from hanging straight and out of the picture.