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"Use it or Lose it"

This is a true story told with the intent of helping others from my experiences of being a stroke survivor of a brain bleed on right side. When you hear people say

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I was Bedside as my good friend died

Last night was very hard for me! I was at his bedside when he took his last breath and went home to be with the Lord. His Soul entered into eternal life at 11:10 pm. It was hard for me cause so many deaths already in the news then he died from prostate cancer suddenly.   I did visit him at his home on Wednesday while his daughter was here. He looked at me raised his arm, very weak, but could not speak. Instantly he was back to sleep eyes closed. I stayed for an hour or so talking with his dau

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The End To My Years Of Working!

No, I didn't hit the lottery, I'm just worn out completely and my body won't take another day.   So, to my cyber family of friends and neighbors in Texas and perhaps around the world, I want to tell all that I have decided with confirmation from all my doctors, to give up being gainfully employed. After 50 years working many, many jobs including my own business, 22 years of military service, and 10 years postal service, I am now RETIRED.   It's been an amazing run for me through the 50 yea

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My Loss and My Gain

This is hard to put into words but I'll try. You heard of use it or lose it right? Well, I used my left hand and arm daily and exercise my entire left side every day. My doctor's diagnose now is "I've lost the use of my weak hand but at the same time gained the use of my left leg and foot. How strange can that be?   The doctor was reviewing MRI and other pictures taken recently of my brain and head. I have very small veins feeding into cells that have died for whatever reasons. When?, he does

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I'm Gardening with my Lil Grand Daughter

Well I haven't blogged since 15 Mar so here is my latest claim to fame...My grand daughter wanted to grow something since her school was making this a big project prior to the end of the school year. We planted Flowers and Vegetables. She was excited, we planted tomatoes seeds first. She made the hole with her finger to put in the two seeds and covered them up. The next day she asked if the tomatoes was ready yet. Evert day she asked!   Finally the stem came up out of the ground, then finally

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Sometimes We Wonder...Why Me Lord!

I thought this was true for me and I know for many others who express the same feelings when they find this site!   It's all about God's Love for all of us....He Loves Us!   Nevertheless, sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why me, why did God have to do this to me?"   Here is a wonderful explanation in my opinion anyway! "In part from my church bulletin."     A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong...She's failing algebra, her boyfriend

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Back to the Drawing Board

Well time has finally arrived where I return to work today, mostly on the evening shift. It will feel good to bring home a paycheck again. Hope I can hold up to the hours since it's been so long. I'm trying to cut back on pain meds but I hurt more at night than at other times.   I'm still going to get checked out by doctors for muscle pains and weakness in my leg and arm. I don't want any clots to be forming, that could spell big troubles. Otherwise all else should be as usual. I think the st

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Some Christian One Liners From the Gang!

Thought I would share these with our Blog community here.     1. Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to sit in their pews.   2. Many folks want to serve God, but only as adviser's.   3. It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.   4. The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.   5. When you get to your wit's end, you'll find God lives there.   6. People are funny; they want the front of the

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What is Considered Progress?

Sometimes I feel as if all my progress has come to a halt for now. It's hard to explain when you remember how well you have been doing since the stroke, in my case 5 years ago. Recently I have lost my weak side control no matter what I do to keep it moving. You ever felt like rope or tape is around your body holding your arm down? Then your leg feels like it's not there or your foot is not touching the floor. That's a funny feeling for sure.   Hopefully it will go away soon. The pain has dec

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Feb 29th

I thought this would be fun to play around with today Feb 28, 2009 and tomorrow Sunday March 1, 2009.     HAVE FUN! Are there any members here born on February 29????? How old are you this year????     February 29 in recent years   2008 (Friday)   2004 (Sunday)   2000 (Tuesday)       February 29 in the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used today, is a date that occurs only once every four years, in years evenly divisible by 4, such as 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 20

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A BIG SNEEZE

They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-two students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With their rich maroon gowns flowing .. And the traditional caps, they looked almost .. As grown up as they felt.   Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and Moms freely brushed away tears.   This class would NOT pray during the commencements----not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.   The principal and several students were careful to stay within the gu

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Anybody read the Stimulus Plan Online Yet?

With so "much to do" about this plan that has caused so much debate, I wanted to know what the members here thought of it as far as "How it will help us."   I have not found the web site yet, I tried three time, I gave up! Anyway I think in my case being a disable veteran I get a lump payment and a break on my disability pay each month by $13.00 and a tax break on my wages at Walmart. Maybe a break on my short term disability pay now.   ANYWAY do you all think it will help the disability p

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DON'T QUIT!

Hey All,   I saw this on a desk in a room they had me park my scooter until the doctor come in to get me. This was the only thing on the desk and no chair. I don't suppose the last person at this desk QUIT??   DON'T QUIT...   When things go wrong as they sometimes Will, when the road you're trudging seems all Uphill,   when you're feeling low and the stress is High, and when you want to smile but you have to Sigh,   when worries are getting you down a Bit... by all means pra

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In Memory Of BLACK HISTORY MONTH!

Again, I have not blogged in quite some time. Therefore with so many things on my mind I thought of my parents and how old both of them would be this year if they were still alive. My mom was born in 1898 while my father was born in 1875. That is a long time ago by any calendar. I feel blessed to be their 18th and last child born in 1941. Just one set of twin girls born six years before me. I never knew but twelve of us because six died early after birth or was still born. No hospital births, th

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We made it to the end of another year!

Well, we made the year, and tomorrow is the dawn of yet another year, 2009, hope you all have much success and recovery through out the year. For me it's five big years on the 15th of January 2009. It doesn't seem that long but I guess time slips away when you are having fun.   Travel is on my mind for 2009, I hope I can put a viable plan into play that I can live with. It all depends on many factors of course like the cost of gas, cash flow, and my physical condition for travel, especially

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I want to travel and visit others...Soon!

I don't make new year resolutions, predictions or plans for that matter, but, I'm sitting here at my trusted computer, where I was 5 years ago come 15 January, 2009, thinking how nice and relaxing it would be for me to drive myself and visit other members from stroke net.   Just the thoughts are relaxing this day with just days left in this year. So, my plans would be to leave Killeen drive into Houston, visit my 85 year old brother, then on to Louisiana, Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama and Flo

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Christmas is here!

Well, to all a Merry Christmas, may you enjoy your gifts and your givings to others. I'm just happy I stayed home where it's a bit safer. We had a freeway shooter on the loose in the Dallas area about 120 miles from me that killed a couple people. You will probably see it on the national news stations like CNN headline news.   I know they never once thought of not being here for Christmas. I stay home out of sight it's safer, I feel. When you go out to celebrate some fool with a gun or a knif

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PRAY FOR PEACE!

I pray for peace around the world, for members here on Stroke Net where every day there is a new member joining or a new crisis that reminds me life is so short. I convey to you in my Blog to please take a mere moment of your time, too, and lets pray for: Peace of mind for the worried, peace for those suffering domestic violence, peace for those at war, peace for those in mental or physical pain..."That's many of us at this time."   Also peace for those who have lost a loved one, peace for th

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Another Year, Another Christmas Controversy

Baby Jesus is at the center of a stir in Washington state. Or rather, his manger and replicas of the Holy Family are at the heart of a controversy. With each Christmas comes this predictable storm: a fight about the public placement of religious symbols and the ensuing argument that the meaning of Christmas is being belittled and downgraded by the nonexistent War on Christianity. Some are even using the term the "extermination of Christmas." Bah humbug, Christmas is not being eliminated, it is

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Interesting Reading...Whom ever you are!

This is pretty strange how it worked this way. Even if you are not religious, you should read this: It's Bible knowledge used in one of the game shows as questions.   Q: What is the shortest chapter in the Bible? A: Psalms 117 You probably already know the shortest verse? Jesus Wept.   Q: What is the longest chapter in the bible? A: Psalms 119 176 verses long.   Q: Which chapter is in the center of the Bible? A: Psalms 118   Facts: There are 594 chapters before Psalms 118. There ar

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Looking Back 50 Years Ago This Month

Well, here it is November 2008, I haven't blogged for a month, it's three in the morning, I'm awake, wife is fast asleep and I thought about 50 years ago, 14 November 1958, I joined the US Army to serve 3 years. I got shipped off from Houston, Texas to Ft Chaffee, Arkansas to get a hair cut, military clothes and boots then off to Ft Stewart, Georgia for basic training at the tender age of 17.   I will never forget my dear old mother saying "Son if you go to jail stealing gas and spare tire fr

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Getting ready for Halloween

It's hard to think Halloween is a week away, Thanksgiving Day a month away and Christmas is still two months away but the retail stores already got Christmas displays up and selling like no tomorrow. At least in the Walmart stores.   Are we losing our focus on good times we had years ago when many of us survivors and care givers enjoyed Trick or Treating in our costumes, funny faces and collecting buckets of candy in our neighborhoods? I'm looking forward to taking my 4 year old granddaughter

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New Orleans "Not To Handicapped Accessible"

New Orleans is trying to make a come back since the hurricane and devastation of 2005 which it has come a long way in rebuilding and getting back to being a tourist Mecca. The one thing I've noticed mostly is it's not too handicapped accessible for wheelchairs and scooters. Many of the streets are under repair and the sidewalks are blocked off where there is work being done to store fronts. So there is no way get pass that part of the sidewalk in a wheelchair or scooter, if you are on foot, you

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Just Trying To Feel Better

I guess I'm blogging because I haven't blogged in such a long time and this morning I find myself here in New Orleans again attending the funeral of one of my wife's family members, her sister-in-law. This time it's not hurricane related as it was with her father in 2005, but a little unbelievable since she was only 42 and was in the Tulane university hospital for a hysterectomy.   Being here on Stroke net we all know suffering and deaths of our loved ones. My main thoughts today in this blog

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