• A  blog is a personal journal of your daily life as a stroke survivor or stroke caregiver.  Surprisingly, countless members have called it therapeautic to write down their thoughts and to vent their frustrations.  You can make it private, just for your eyes or public and share your personal thoughts with your friends.  Why not try it, create your blog and start writing and see if it helps you.  

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  • swilkinson

    Living on angel time.

    By swilkinson

    I went to see the neurosurgeon on Tuesday. I was interviewed by a young Asian associate doctor and sent for a 3D MRI and angiogram, a brand new way of showing  the blood supply within the brain. The results were given to me by the associate and then I saw the specialist. It appears the aneurysm is larger and deeper than previously thought but at my age they are not going to operate as it would mean a full brain surgery. Coiling, one method of dealing with an aneurysm, is not an option. I think I
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vmoran's Blog

Falling down

I fell down three cement steps yesterday - but it felt like a million. I pretended it was the ice that made me slip but, if I had to tell the truth, my right leg forgot what to do, just for a second. That second was like one of those dreams where you're falling and you wake up right before you land. All slow motion and almost gentle - but, then I landed. On the hard cement, on my right side. I have a bruise the size of Spokane on my hip, another shaped like Dallas on my right arm, and my right h
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ssanchez's Blog

Blogging

I was not wanting to blog , but here I am Blogging. Today it is going to be a beautiful day here in California. weather nice sun out and life seems to be some what Peachy I must change my attitude with what has happened to me I may need to really except that I have stroked and except the new me,I don't know if I really have come to that as of yet. I thank God every day for waking up and just seeing my family, and having friends like all of you that I have met
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hostpam's Blog

My third Anniversary 2/1/05

Well today is the third anniversary of my exclusive membership into this elite fun filled club. I stroked three years ago today. I have no memories of the event. I was on morphine and the docs probably could have cut my legs off at the knees and I would have smiled and laughed and drooled. I was on Morphine and very happy with that drug. It was like being at disney without any tickets. The only thing I didn't like about that day was the tube they had crammed down my throat. I remember hearing wh
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Charles' Blog

I wish there were a magic pill

I wish there were a magic pill available.   I would like this magic pill to be able to cure whatever you happen to have have. I wish my wife were able to take advantage of this magic pill so she would not be in such constant pain.   Now wait a minute . If she were pain free that would mean that her task would be your caregiver. That's not fair to her.   Now if I were to take this magic pill, i would be free of her ravages of stroke and my task would be as her caregiver. Now wait
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tparson's Blog

The Up's and Down's of Pregnancy

I found out on Jan 27th that I am expecting! We are soooo happy and excited that we are beside ourselves   We sat the kids down the night of the 27th and told them about the baby. They are all very happy. The girls want a girl and my son want's a boy. Typical.     The next day while the kids were at school telling all of their friends we told our parents. I found these little books at the dollar store that had Bible scripture in them (the name of the book was "Light of My Path for Gra
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Janice

Past life comes to haunt

What I was and who I was when was in college and shortly thereafter has haunted me for years. The circumstances of my marriage are a result of the lifestyle I lead when in my 20's. Hubby has always hated me because of it. He claims he loves(ed) me but I have never sensed in my heart any feeling other than hate and disapproval from him. We were both 31 when we got married.(old enough to know better) It's been almost 21 years and our son is almost 21 Many times I've tried to tell him how h
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Bil's Blog

Cooking again!

January 31, 2005   One of the things I didn't like after my stroke was about cooking. I always loved to cook. Not that I was a chef, but at least a good cook. Like when I was young, I always entertaining friends for a dinner -- although many of them never asked invited me to their homes. Think they were not good cooks, since they always said that my food was as if I was a gourmet. I never wanted to hear that, because some times I felt that my food was not the best.   They loved my stuf
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Charles' Blog

Frustration

Frustration.   If there was one word that could be used to describe today, it was frustration. I tried to get hold of the Disability Management person in my company. What I actually got was her voice mail. I left her the happy news that I had another TIA and that I would be notifying my neurologist about this (It was late Friday afternoon when I was released from the Emergency Room and after 5:00pm when I got home).   I had wanted to get her email address and forward her the Larry King
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kimberly9's Blog

i'm not laughing today

i can't think of any external reason for this. but for the past three days i have had a sense of impending doom, and am afraid of everything!!! it's almost like i am agoraphobic but i keep "pushing ahead" like nothing is wrong. it's maddening!!!!   my hands are sweaty and i feel shaky. i am having nightmares and am hearing little noises like a cell phone or slot machine in the distance. it's weird. today i had to drive a few miles to an appointment and i thought i was going to pass out from
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Janice

Reconsidered Waywardness

I've had a good night's sleep and have decided I will not seek out an old beau. That would just be too weird for all concerned. No sense in opening a can of worms that may be too big to contain.
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Janice

Nasty person 1/30/05

All these self doubt questions. Combined with hubby's continued cold shoulder to me, has had me thinking of old guy friends. Just wondering what is happening in their world. Found an old love letter from one guy, now, when I read it I can plainly see he was very smitten with me but at the time I couldn't see it. I wonder if I'd be a nasty person if I were to try to locate this fellow and see what's happening in his world.... this relationship happened 25+ years ago and never kept in touch
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Charles' Blog

I wonder.....

I had a pretty decent day today. We moved my wife's computer from one end of the house to the new office we had set up for the company. I didn't think I did that much but about 2:30pm, I had a real bad fatigue attack. These seem to come on suddenly. I can't really do anything when they hit.   Luckily, there are none of the symptoms normally associated with a TIA along witht he fatigue.   I think I can sum up how I feel in one sentence:   I am TIRED of being TIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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vmoran's Blog

Kids and keyboards!

Ryan got lasagna in the keyboard last night. I'm literally picking food out from between the letters - How do you clean a keyboard? Can you take it apart and wash it? The p and the o are covered in spaghetti sauce, and there's something on the F4 key that I don't want to know about! If I get electrocuted wiping the inside of the keyboard down with windex, this kid is in big trouble. It's my computer! I swear he'll never eat or drink in this room again! If I can't get back online you'll know you
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Charles' Blog

I survived Saturday

I slept in today. Until about 4:30am. I don't know why I wake up that early but I do. I don't go to bed exceptionally early.   Today was errand day with my wife. We left about 8:45am to drive to Toledo. We were going to Sam's Club, Wal Mart, and Kroger for various items we had been putting off for awhile.   I got through Sam's with no problem. It was pretty much like any other Sam's Club.... Huge!!!!!!!!!   We got to Wal Mart. We had a list of what we needed to get. We got thos
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Janice

Saturday morning 1/29/05

Nothing special to say, just wanted to make a post. Had goofy dreams last night...I was in a restaurant and everyone else had placed their order and the waitress finally came back and took my order which she spit in before delivering it to me. What does that say about my life?  
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sam/boston's Blog

BAD CAT!!

WELL HE DID IT!.iopened up my porch looking for a fire,something was burnning good,that bad floyd jumped up on the ledge& proceeded to walk down the ledge( we're talking something like a 5" ledge! coverd with spots of ice!!! bad cat!!)went to my next door neibors place( about 60-70 feet!)& got scard at that point & hid in her coset,my other niebor got him out,he looked scard,well..... little mr. you just lost your porch prevlages excitment for the day,now on to cook a pot of beef s
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Charles' Blog

TIA #4

I ended up in the Emergency Room this afternoon. My neuro's nurse called us to tell me he was increasing my dosage of coumadin. I was out running errands and my wife told her about the symptoms I had experienced Wednesday and Thursday.   She seemed a bit purturbed that I had not contacted them with my symptoms when they happened.   About 12:30pm, I started experiencing that familiar symptoms: numbness in the left side of my face, not being able to think clearly. So what did I do, I cal
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