The Power of Quitting

I quit any formal stroke therapy because living life took precedence. If there was ANY proven results with specific stroke protocols I might take it up again. But that will never occur under the current stroke medical non-leadership.

I quit my marriage because this is what I was going thru;

Woman Realizes That She’s Been Accidentally Abusing Her Husband This Whole Time

Mine was orange juice, besides the fact she said she should have left me to die on the bedroom floor.

I can persevere thru probably anything thrown at me(24 years of marriage), but why abuse yourself?

5 Valid Reasons to Be a Quitter

The latest here at the NYTimes:

The Power of Quitting

5 Valid Reasons to Be a Quitter

I quit any formal stroke therapy because living life took precedence. If there was ANY proven results with specific stroke protocols I might take it up again. But that will never occur under the current stroke medical non-leadership.
I quit my marriage because this is what I was going thru;
Woman Realizes That She’s Been Accidentally Abusing Her Husband This Whole Time
Mine was orange juice.
I can persevere thru probably anything thrown at me(24 years), but why abuse yourself?

5 Valid Reasons to Be a Quitter

Six Ways To Stay Motivated When You Really Want To Quit - Stroke rehab

You're going to feel like quitting numerous times from your stroke rehab because you are seeing no progress and your doctor gives you no assurances that anything you are doing is going to help. You have to somehow pull out your internal motivators to get to your best recovery. Your doctor and psychologist should be providing you with the tools needed to persevere. But since it is very unlikely that they have maybe this will help you keep going. This is not medical advice since I'm not qualified to give that. So don't listen to me, I know nothing.
http://www.fastcompany.com/3052640/know-it-all/six-ways-to-stay-motivated-when-you-really-want-to-quit
 We all hit a wall—a place where we feel like quitting because things get difficult or boring—but quitting isn’t always the right answer. Instead, you have to find internal motivation to keep going when you really want to bail, and that can come down to understanding kinematics, the relative distance between two bodies, says Stanford University Professor Bernard Roth, author of The Achievement Habit: Stop Wishing, Start Doing, and Take Command of Your Life.

1. Practice Looking At Things From The Other Side

2. Identify Your Intention

3. Find A Different Way To Do Things

4. Lose Your Ego

5. Realize That Nothing Is Perfect

6. Beware Of Your Habits

 More at link.

One Man Lost Most of His Brain and Didn't Even Notice

If we had anything even approaching a decent stroke association this guys brain would be studied to death for how all the necessary brain functions are packed into what little was left of his brain. That could inform us survivors how extreme damage can be overcome instead of our doctors informing us 'You won't get better'. With this as a guide, 100% recovery for all should be possible.
http://www.newser.com/story/210858/one-man-lost-most-of-his-brain-and-didnt-even-notice.html?
As it turns out maybe the Scarecrow didn't need that brain after all. Real Clear Science revisits a bizarre case from 2007 in which a relatively normal 44-year-old man—married, two kids, job—turned out to have been going about his life without most of his brain. In fact, the discovery was only made when the man went to a hospital in France because his leg was feeling weak. According to a New Scientist article published when the case was revealed in July 2007, one neurologist estimated the man was missing more than 50% to 75% of his brain but—other than a slightly below-average IQ of 75, per the study in the Lancet—was suffering no ill effects. Real Clear Science reports the man's condition stemmed from a case of hydrocephalus (an excessive buildup the cerebrospinal fluid that cushions your brain) suffered as a baby. At that time, doctors inserted a shunt into the man's skull to drain the fluid. But when the shunt was removed at age 14, fluid again started building up, and this time it had three decades to push his brain matter until that matter only lined the edges of his skull (pictures here). According to the New Scientist, neurologists could not explain how the man could function while the parts of the brain that control motion, language, vision, emotions, and more were severely compressed.(Well then study it until you do understand, that's called quitting, survivors can't quit) In the end, the case was pointed to as an extreme example of the brain's adaptability.(lazy answer) "If something happens very slowly over quite some time, maybe over decades, the different parts of the brain take up functions that would normally be done by the part that is pushed to the side," said a brain defect specialist not involved in the study.

Quitter!

I'm seriously thinking of pulling back from my stroke blog for a while. It has completely consumed my life for the past 5 years and I'm not seeing much effect yet. Everything is pretty much laid out on how to fix the stroke medical system. Every single stroke hospital in the world should be doing  the exact same thing I'm doing, analyzing stroke research and seeing where it applies in the stroke protocols or setting up research to answer the question of how to get translational effects out of the research. I'm superfluous  There is no real intellectual challenge anymore in this. It is a management challenge and I've already proven in an earlier career that I hit the Peter Principle really hard when I was promoted to manager. Part of this is because I'm tired and I want to recover a couple hours for myself each night, maybe I'll finally catch up on sleep.
I will still post but probably put them up in a draft status until the weekend when I can blast them all out.
 There is still lots to do:
1. I have 20-30 ebooks to write yet on stroke
2. I have to create content for the various URLs I own.
    AFTERYOURSTROKE.COM   
    AFTERYOURSTROKE.INFO
    AFTERYOURSTROKE.NET
    AFTERYOURSTROKE.ORG
    DEANREINKE.COM
    DEANREINKE.INFO
    DEANREINKE.NET
    DEANREINKE.ORG
    DEANSSTROKEMUSINGS.COM
    STROKERESEARCHINSTITUTE.COM
    STROKERESEARCHINSTITUTE.INFO
    STROKERESEARCHINSTITUTE.NET
    STROKERESEARCHINSTITUTE.ORG
    STROKESURVIVORINSTITUTE.COM
    STROKETRIBEBLOGS.COM


3. I have to start up a stroke research foundation.
4. I have to recover enough to start running again.
5. I have to start a stroke blog farm.
Part of this is because I want to start another blog:
Deans' Michigan musings - Michigan is in a world of hurt from all the disastrous policies that have been implemented. And I happen to think that if I apply myself I could solve these problems. Hopefully leading to another career in public policy.
http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2015/06/quitter/?

Quitting

Don't want to make a decision? You can try a random Y/N answer.
I personally have quit on intentional stroke rehab exercises. Living takes too much time and there is nothing out there that would tell me if there is anything useful that will help relocate functions that were in dead brain areas.
https://www.freakonomicsexperiments.com/