That saying has been repeated over and over for as long as I can remember by my mother and other family members and friends alike! Well, yesterday we learned that my wife's older brother lost his wife to a heart attack. No prior problems along those lines, nothing to indicate there was even a problem at her age of about 60! It really caught us by surprise, she passed Thursday in New Orleans so we prepared to go there yesterday not knowing when the funeral services would be! Then the word came th
I couldn't believe when I looked at my last time I did a blog it's been well over two weeks! My how time flies when you are going to appointments and getting medical attention! I must say I feel the slow heart beat I had saved me from getting a steroid injection hours before the announcement was made on TV that the injections were contaminated with a meningitis virus!!
Again, I can say all things that happens to you or with you are not necessarily bad but we tend to think so when a condition
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Thought I would attempt to cheer some of you up. I read where tears are running rampart, hearts are heavy and the days and weeks are making you feel so down. Lay your burdens down give them to God he won't put more on you than you can carry. Brighter days and weeks are just ahead! :big_grin: Nothing last forever especially hard times! :Clap-Hands: :roflmao:
This guy is sitting at home alone when he hears a knock on the front door. There are two sheriff's deputies there so he asks if ther
This Sandy storm has come and gone but not without unusual destruction in several states leaving so many homeless, some changing to another hospital, and still many others not really knowing what they will do next! Hard decisions must be made in many cases on where will I live next, rebuild and start over, or stay with family or friends????
Having to make decisions like this is very hard on any person especially when they have lived much of their lives where they are now but staying there is
Well, tax pay up time has arrived because tomorrow 17 April 2012 is the last day to post mark and send your payment to the IRS without farther penalties. I will insure it gets in the mailbox TODAY!
When they have to send you a refund of your money you paid them all year they don't add any interest but when you owe them for not paying enough they charge you a fee! So today I'm making sure my check is in the mail for tomorrows deadline to pay! I already sent in another W4 to have more held for ta
I'm really involved with my fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in their struggles to make a big change in life styles with artificial limbs and brain injuries! Their families are close by their sides along with their children even the small ones! Some kids were born while they were overseas so they never saw the child before! It's so hard to see a young mother trying to hold her baby with no hands!
I'm now wishing I could do more with my weak hand but I can't and wishing I could stand and walk but
Sometimes when you get up on Saturday mornings you never know what the day will bring! I went to bed hurting a bit more than normal, if there is such a thing, so I had to take my arthritis meds to make the pain ease up some! My wife was off today so she wanted to travel 50 miles to Austin Texas 50 miles away to visit the flea market. For me that meant being on my scooter while she walked to look at every site there was to be seen! They had two booths selling many kinds of live birds with the cag
You know, it's hard to accept that we will be like we are, in most cases, for the remainder of our lives. We first hear from the ER doctors at the hospital, then therapist, other doctors and still other doctors in certain fields of studies. If you remember none of them ever said or stated we would recover in our walking, talking or what if any, that we may get back from the stroke.
All the answers to our questions were very vague and would always end with, "I can't say what you will get back
I'm sure you have heard or even said both when you survived the deadly stroke in your life. Should it become the case of a non-survivor then you are a victim in my opinion! Well, I survived a Brain Bleed stroke on 15 January 2004 while home alone on the second floor sitting at my computer. Mind you I just had my annual physical the month prior and declared in great shape! I did know it wasn't my heart and never thought about a stroke at my age1 NO ONE IN MY FAMILY EVER HAD A STROKE!
My finge
I have posted this idea to follow before in a way to avoid any falls! We have to remember that one side of our brain was attacked leaving us to depend on sight and feel to make our paralysed side work the way it must for us to even walk, see and do many things we wish to do slowly!
Here it is: Always think to bend the knee not picking up the foot! That's when we stumble when we think pick up the foot. See thinking bend the knee is much easier to do and if we bend the knee I promise you the f
This is a subject that goes way back farther than we can imagine, "For God loveth a cheerful giver" For many, many Christians, December 25th is a time of celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ the son of God. Even though it is most likely not the exact date of Jesus' birth of mankind's Redeemer.
Traditions often inspire joy and a sense of belonging. They also help create heartwarming memories for children and adults alike for years to come. Yet it is fascinating to learn the history behind so
Well, I thought about this blog, the long and the short version after talking with my God and my wife and reading my own notes about what it is I want to say....Here goes, my condition is slowly getting worse to a point I can hardly walk, think, or do the things that was once easy for me to accomplish.... I can hardly stand up on my feet from the bed, walking is scary, going to the bathroom, getting up from the commode by myself is truly a task very hard to accomplish now...
In a sense I am
My condition hasn't changed very much from 12 years ago as I am still doing for myself and got a lady coming in 5 days a week for one hour to help me with my socks and shoes and caring for my feet which is very hard for me to reach and do myself.... that's a big help every morning.... My wife helps me with bathing or showering at night so the VA cut me down to one hour for help coming in home....
She helps me with the exercise bike too that helps with my paralyzed side which I can't use very
You know, I'm very thankful, this is another year upon me since the stroke of my life happened on January 15, 2004. I really feel I'm blessed in many ways to be alive today and this year makes eight I have been a survivor. So for me, it's a time to be thankful. Thankful to God, my wife and family and the wonderful members here past and present! We can all look back and get angry about the stroke or strokes that caused us to be in the condition we are now.
The big question in my mind is could
Here I am in the month of December 2014!!! Many of you know I have had some setbacks to keep me off the board for quite some time now. I'm finally healed up enough to sit here and express myself without being in total pain since the operation on my knee and thigh.It's been a long road to recovery but I made it by the grace of my God and my wife.
I was always posting and greeting new members as they joined strokenet with many questions they needed answers to for their long journey to a good r
It's been so long since I last blogged I have almost forgotten how or what to do in writing a blog..... Then again it appears the site has made a few changes too....... Well to start with I'm doing pretty good considering after suffering a big stroke years ago and I'm still around to be on Stroke Net posting.....
I really hope all of you I know are doing pretty good too as we all will try to do the best we can long as we can by the grace of God above.... I don't get on site like I once did s
It will be 8 years on January 15th 2012, since the stroke put me on a cane and a scooter in 2004. My in home health provider is trying her best to help me walk again with no support. It's working and I'm working at it daily in several ways. I'm working with different machines at the senior center to gain strength in the weak leg. Then at home I got things I work with to help even more assisted by my health provider three days a week.
I hope to be more consistent by year's end. Already I gave
The Friday after Thanksgiving commonly called black Friday will start early this year at 8pm Thursday evening Thanksgiving day!!!! All the TV stations, CNN too has ads stating shopping starts early this year at 8pm Thursday evening with Sears leading the way along with Kmart!!
You can imagine all the stores will follow suit as they are all open to making money and hiring more people to handle the shopping season through the end of this year!! I did speak to the manager at Walmart where I onc
Tax time can be a frustrating time for some folks preparing their own taxes! On the other hand when you use the right guide it can be fun and a learning process for a life time! In my case I have been using "Turbo Tax" for nine years now and they work great for me! All the answers are at your finger tips and you can take your own time to finish, the cost is very low with a discount from my credit card company!! They store your last year info in giving to charities and things you'll need for the
Well, in case you ever decide to come live in TEXAS you will know a little bit about the BIG state of Texas!
Only in Texas
A history/geography lesson for all Texans, used-to-be Texans, adopted Texans
or wanna-be Texans:
Just Texas
Pep, Texas 79353
Smiley, Texas 78159
Paradise, Texas 76073
Ra
Do you ever just sit and think to yourself?? Do you wonder why you have so many pains, hard times, and things go wrong while other people don't seem to have any pains or hard times and they seem to be the perfect person?? Well, I'm almost sure that by now as a survivor or care giver you have noticed that the world is not perfect. You don't have to live long to figure that out, but something within us as human beings still want to experience perfection in our lives.
We want the perfect family
Where would we be after this experience if we didn't develop a sense of Humor??? I know..."We would be crazy by now."
Some light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak but that won't change any time soon! I been here 10 years already!
War does not determine who is right only who is left.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad...
Behind every successful man is his woman but behind the fall of a su
Well, as most of you can feel the heat, and see a little greenery around, Spring is here and just about in every state in the US. So we can look forward to a very warm spring maybe a very hot Summer too! If we are lucky our winter months won't be so much snow as in the winter past! I know here in Texas it was terrible with the drought where cattle were dying and water was none existence! Now it's raining again in Texas but a little late for the farmers and the ranchers who lost much of their cro
Thursday I go in to see the heart doctor that ordered the heart monitor and see what he has found out about my heart condition! The thing that concerned me most was the slow beat they are ranting about!! Maybe it doesn't have to work so hard since half my brain is not working to good and many of those cells are dead or just sitting there in limbo not needing any fresh blood pumped up to them!!
I got 4 days of test before he tells me the news!!!
My hope is I won't have to be hospitalized
