Deans' stroke musings: The fall

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.

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

The fall

My doctor keeps asking me if I fall; 'Of course I do, otherwise I'm not doing difficult enough walks to prevent falling.'

Well, it occurred.

After 3 days of pulling and dragging cut saplings from the earlier owner, we burned huge piles of them to lessen the fire risk to the cabins. On the fourth day, I was moving some wood to the driveway to be burned when I fell against an upright birch tree, hitting my left upper ribs under the armpit. Incredibly sore right now, picking things up from the floor is almost an impossibility. But no brusing, turning while walking is a no-no right now. Can't raise my left arm, but then I couldn't raise it before the accident either.

The standup paddleboard I'll try next summer.

I am currently in Duluth for a couple of days, heading back to cabin after that to finish pulling wood and do saunas, winterize it.
Tried the lidocaine once. It seemed to work on the top layer of muscles, but the underlying muscles then spasmed a lot. Went to urgent care this morning, no broken ribs, several weeks for recovery. Advil and ice will do. I guess I'll be reading a lot in the meantime.

The arthritic cream works the best, heading back home to recuperate in preparation for my trip to Spain at the end of the month.

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Deans' stroke musings