Deans' stroke musings: Johns Courage To Be Recognised At National Awards

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, April 24, 2024

Johns Courage To Be Recognised At National Awards

Requiring courage to recover from a stroke is an indictment into the complete fucking failures of the stroke medical world to get stroke solved to 100% recovery.

Johns Courage To Be Recognised At National Awards

Stroke Foundation

A Drysdale survivor of stroke who made it his mission to walk again in time to farewell his mother has been recognised for his courage.

John O'Dowd had a stroke in 2023, a few years after having a heart attack. He had to learn how to walk again and during the rehabilitation process was dealt another blow; his mother fell ill and passed away.

During this difficult time, John turned his grief into motivation and set himself a goal to walk out of rehabilitation to attend his mother's funeral. To the surprise of doctors and physiotherapists, John achieved this after just only three weeks of rehabilitation.

Now he is being recognised for his courage, being named a finalist for the Courage Award for the Stroke Foundation Stroke Awards.

Stroke Foundation Chief Executive Officer, Dr Lisa Murphy, commended John on his achievement.

"The Courage Award recognises courage and hope shown by survivors and carers in stroke recovery and John has shown immense courage. He overcame major emotional and physical challenges to be able to attend his mother's funeral which would've been a tough moment for him."

The Stroke Awards celebrate the unsung heroes in our community who go above and beyond to improve the lives of Australians affected by stroke. This includes the survivors of stroke, carers, volunteers, fundraisers, health professionals and researchers and members of the community.

The finalists for the Courage Award are:

Rebecca Schmidt-Lachlan - New South Wales
Michael Denehy - Queensland
John O'Dowd - Victoria

There are eight categories in total: Warrior, Improving Life After Stroke, Creative, Courage, First Nations Stroke Excellence, Fundraiser of the Year, Volunteer of the Year and President's Achievement.

The 2024 Stroke Awards are supported by Medtronic, Abbvie, Australian Physiotherapy Association (APA), Ipsen, NAB, Precision Connect and Worrells.