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.
That's exactly what I shad to do. After leaving the hospital following my first stroke I went thru 4-5 PT Clinics to proactively direct my Recovery. Once in my chosen Clinic I had to make sure they understand I needed Stroke oriented Recivery and NOT just some physical recovery that worked well for someone working on knee/hip surgery recovery or some work related back/shoulder recovery mandated by the state.
ReplyDeleteThen I would go back to my Drs for some health checkups and med prescripts as needed.
Not the way I imagined MY Recovery journey would go.
ConcreteTim Oakland CA