Thursday, October 17, 2013

My doctor has told me I won't recover, What should I do?

Questions I get asked.
My fairly generic answer because the answer is out there, they just need to read it.

You totally ignore your doctors  pronouncement on your recovery, They know nothing. Your recovery is totally up to your hard work. It may take millions of repetitions.
Read Amys blog;
http://mycerebellarstrokerecovery.com/
Scotts blog;
http://strokeselfrecovery.blogspot.com/
Scotts blog from the wayback machine - archives;
https://web.archive.org/web/20131008064245/http://strokeselfrecovery.blogspot.com/
Barbs blog;
http://barbpolansrecovery.blogspot.com/ 
Peters blog;
http://recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com/
Read all the entries including the books mentioned, they will give you the info you need to recover. There is no magic or shortcut, its all repetition, repetition, repetition.
If you have no movement in some muscles click on dead brain rehab on the right side index of my blog.
I'm not medically trained so none of this is to be listened to. (snort, snort)
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6 comments:

  1. Barb PolanOctober 17, 2013 at 4:02 PM

    Obviously my blog focuses on emotional/philosophical issues rather than medical information, but I feel left out.

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  2. JuliaOctober 17, 2013 at 4:42 PM

    I am medically trained. Listen to Dean not to your doctor.

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  3. Barb PolanOctober 17, 2013 at 5:31 PM

    Dean, you're the best! Thanks.

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  4. UnknownOctober 17, 2013 at 8:21 PM

    The VA clinic I go to is small, so the doctors I see now and who see me walking know they're the ones who told me I wouldn't walk a few short years ago. My bitter anger and rage about that must be palpable, for they seem unusually silent during my visits. Good. They should stay that way. Thank you for the post, Dean, the contemptible ignorance of doctors cannot be stressed enough.

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  5. Elizabeth, John, Jack, and LukeOctober 19, 2013 at 12:10 AM

    Fire every idiot immediately that tells you this nonsense!!! They know nothing, Dean is exactly right! Buy Peter's book and focus like your life depends on it with every repetition. Don't waste your time "going through the motions" of an exercise, I'm convinced the "intensity" is at least equally important.

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