Deans' stroke musings: John Wesley Powell pocketknife

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.

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

John Wesley Powell pocketknife

Powell as captain of battery F of the 2nd Illinois artillery took part in the battle of Shiloh, losing his right arm at Pittsburg Landing. He is most famous for being first down the Colorado River thru the Grand Canyon.

No idea if he had a pocketknife like this but it was the one thing I retained from my ex until losing it on a nightstand in Yosemite, it must have slid under the lamp base. Took me a while to find it at Woodcraft and bought a replacement.

One blade opens incredibly easy one-handed, you just have to remember not to carry it on planes or any music or sporting venue that does metal detection. I should have gotten purchase information on that from my therapists to do all the ADLs I was used to.

The left blade is the one you grab with your thumb and finger, then set the base of the knife against your hip and it pops open.

The blade completely open, the other standard blade I barely use, too hard to get open. Friends dislike this because the blade is so sharp which I consider necessary since any sawing motion with a knife is nigh impossible one-handed.