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.

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Finger problems on my good hand

 I ripped open my little finger in a fall a couple weeks ago, healing but not usable yet. Last week when reaching for a PCR test I dropped the plastic bag and in the process of getting out of the car managed to smash my middle finger. Two days later a blood blister emerged under the nail bed. With my blood thinning capabilities of my daily aspirin it kept growing, leading to three nights of very little sleep due to pain and throbbing. With a useless left hand the normal remedies of drilling a hole in the nail or heating a paper clip to burn thru it to relieve the pressure are not possible. The blood blister finally migrated  outside the fingernail and I could lance it with a pocketknife held in my teeth.  My ex used to admonish me for using my teeth to get tasks accomplished, I ignored her ideas even though she was a physical therapist.  Getting socks on now is quite the challenge with only three usable fingers. Had to take maybe 20 pictures on a timer before I got one that is minimally acceptable. The nail will eventually fall off, it's bulging out of place right now.



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  1. Geoff.WenkerJanuary 5, 2022 at 4:54 PM

    Bummer!
    I have trouble with over use of good side (right & dominant) shoulder and elbow

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