Well I been on this site now for a long time hoping I have learned a few things about strokes and the recovery process from so many members who came here just as I did not knowing what to expect next. I want to believe I may have helped a few of them in talking about the stroke and the recovery process that many of them knew nothing about.
When you are into your first therapies the therapist just don't give you much information about the recovery process. Seems like when you asked them a que
And now today we set the clocks back an hour except for the states and regions of the world that doesn't have daylight saving time zones like Arizona for instance! It was always fun to leave Arizona and getting to the Hover Dam going into Las Vegas and see the time zone has changed!
Have any of you been on that winding mountain road and crossed the Hover Dam?? I tell you if there is ever a bus tour and the bus driver is speeding they certainly will not make it out alive because it's a long w
How do I do it?? I suppose I'll never know what I got myself into this time around with my Therapies and being removed from in home health care from the VA! It could be much worse and I felt like I was in a downhill mode.
Yesterday I spent four hours at the VA 25 miles away from where I live and my wife had to be there with me they instructed. That cost her a half day of annual leave and I had to reschedule my therapies from mornings to late evening.
The doctor and clinic I was told to s
Anyone ever felt they were going backwards in their recovery process?? I'm in both therapies OT and PT and my ability to stand, walk and move my arms, legs is nearly none existence anymore! For some odd reasons I feel pretty much like I did 10 years ago when I came home in a WC unable to walk.
I never would have imagined this would be the case with me this many years later. It all started when it got very difficult for me to stand up from a seat especially if it was very low. Now there is n
Well, thanks to all the prayers from many of you I'm back but still in therapy both OT and PT for a while longer. You know we never know what lies ahead of us on any given day or night. Once a survivor our lives change in the way we have to go about living.
Many of the things we love doing we just can't do one sided, one handed and mostly no memory of what we got in our mind anyway. I'm in therapy for a while longer and it's really helping me this time around to find my true self. A stroke a
Well you guys and gals I really thank you for all your kind comments and especially the prayers you all sent my way. I thank you too for those I tried to say the right words to in getting them welcomed here on our support board when they were called Newbies as new members.
I don't know how it seems I got up from my stroke ahead of some other even after spending five months in the hospital and rehab to learn how to do things survivors are supposed to learn how to do for themselves quickly. We
Well, well, they added OT to my PT schedule today so they must know Medicare will eventually pay them for the services they are providing me for these 8 sessions! I sure did need it with my arm and hand I guess I sort of let myself go more than I figured.
I'll get back on track and figure out a way to stand up from sitting without trying to push up with my good arm, that's killing my shoulder for sure using it to help me stand up. My knees are so bad already and the injections don't last lon
I have six more sessions of therapy that I'm hoping will help me walk better again. I didn't realize how much mobility I had lost. Not being able to step up or down on the curbs to go in a building or even my church steps which are a little taller than most steps.
Come to find out my muscles had contracted in my legs and feet and my weak arm and hand. I guess I had let myself go to much. So I'm hoping I can get up from a regular chair again, walk better, and not have problems trying to stand
I'm back as a survivor this time of having pneumonia and didn't know it. I'm willing to bet many people get it and don't know about it until way too late where it takes them out!! I never would have thought I had it but this was my first time to experience pneumonia in my life. No one in my family ever had it I know about. My mom had home remedies that cured about everything you would get as a child growing up!!
Chicken Pox or mumps and colds were about it as I grew up besides stepping on na
WELL, I got pneumonia, aches and pains too but I will stay indoors for a few days get some rest and try to recover where I feel better the soonest! Sometimes the way you feel doesn't tell you what is going on inside you
in many cases. This was one of those times I never thought about having pneumonia in my lungs!
So if and when you feel pains and just tired it could be something inside you that needs the attention of a doctor and a few x-rays! to determine what is happening! You know as we
We here have all said at one time or another that recovering from a stroke is slow, very slow at best in my own opinion! Here lately with me I seem to have slowed down in my recovery but I think and feel there are other elements in the way of my recovery.
The first two are my age and my arthritis! I turned the corner in age in July, I made it to 72 years old! I have had arthritis what seem like all my life and it runs deep in my family history. I mean my mother, father, and all the children
Well the time has come along where my old knees are hurting so much it is very hard for me to stand up from a regular low chair, the church pews, my computer chair, and chairs in the doctor's office as I wait to see the doctor!
I'm still not going to have knee replacements I'll keep what I got. I been cut on so many times from head to feet and shot up too so no more operations until it becomes a life or death situation for me! I'll take my chances! Then I'm told the older you are the less do
Football fans get ready for the season opener in Football. Both college and the pros will be playing as usual. Last season we had many young kids in college and their parents were members here at stroke net.
It was interesting to let them know how their kids and their dollars were doing in college. Of course when they graduate and get drafted by professional teams it really means a lot for the parents to see their names in print here!
There were some on the cheer-leader rosters as well a
Well it's pre season now but the regular season starts September 5th! Then we will have Sunday night football as well like it was tonight!
Baseball is still being played and Lenny is all smiles as his team, the Red Sox are leading their division and should end up in the World Series come October!!!
In time we all will have some good days and for sure some bad days but you know what, I'll take all I can get being a survivor like I am now. Over all I feel most of my stroke survivor days has been much better than my bad days and those days and nights too being shot at in Vietnam many years ago when you can't see who is doing the shooting. We have to say life is good and being loved by your wife/husband or other is remarkable!!
We all know our days are numbered it's just that no one knows
Our health and our recovery from a debilitating stroke of any kind is monumental in our recovery process. I have read many times over this past week or so where the survivors just don't want to be involved with therapy for their recovery process to take hold of their bodies to make them feel and be so much better than just laying there hurting.
Sometimes it feels like we just take our meds, walk a little, eat something then lay down to rest our body and our brain. That doesn't do a thing for
With all the different kinds of weather this year the fall season is upon us and for the next seven days the weather men are saying we got 100 degree temps for all of those days. I really need to water the lawn front and back but with the heat all day the best time to water is late at night. Rain is something we haven't had very much of lately and the drought of a year ago is still showing in most yards on my street.
I will just have to get up soon real early to get the watering done on my s
Well, I had my share of computer problems the last two weeks or so. I got on here but couldn't make a post or comment to a members post or blog. I was never a true computer person and looks like I forgot what little I did know! I suppose the mind or memory has a lot to do with that issue after surviving any stroke.
I hope all of you that post and comment often has learned about the edit symbol, when you put your arrow on it, it says (toggle editing mode) in the left hand corner so you can us
Finally, things are back to normal around the house, the floors are done and my wife is happy. Now I can resume going places, doing things I like, and getting out to the senior center to use their many machines. I don't have a health care lady anymore so I'm on my own to get things done daily.
Now I can go to Walmart, the big grocery stores, eat fresh fruits and dishes they sit out for the customers to taste daily. With the high heat and little rain I think inside the big stores is the place
Have you ever felt that when you have love in your heart it seems to conquer many of the fears you have or has had recently? To me and for me I tend to have power over fear. I have read comments, blogs, and other writings here where the stroke survivor has fear that another stroke will happen again or that they can't make it through this stroke in fear of not surviving. I would guess over 50 percent of all survivors has thought that way about their condition after stroke. Even some doctors will
Well we planned a trip to do a bit of gambling but had to cancel. So many other things came up as usual when you make plans to go some place. The money won't spoil but could shrink some as we discovered there were other items that needed our undivided attention here at home.
There is always another time we can make the trip and hope we return as winners too! My wife loves to play the penny machines all over the casino. Sometimes she will visit another casino close by when she is not doing to
THE FLOORS ARE FINISHED THE INSTALLERS PAID AND GONE. Now I need to go to the casino to try my luck at winning a little change. The only thing about that is it's not guaranteed I win. On the other hand it will be a short change of scenery away from the house that has been stacked up with furniture to get the flooring down and new carpets installed in the bedrooms.
Now there is a need for a cleaning lady or perhaps a team to clean the whole house top to bottom. The installers don't clean up b
My little wife got so many irons in the fire until she forgets how much stuff is being done while she is at work very day. It was supposed to be completed in three days, not so, they are still hammering away downstairs today but still got to remove the carpet from the staircase and install the laminated wood there after they finish the rooms downstairs today I hope. They are leaving that for last since I use the lift going up and down the stairs all day long.
We are getting quality work from
I can say most of the members here at stroke net has been looking and waiting for summer to arrive. Well in my neck of the woods it has arrived with triple digit heat almost every day so far and it's the first two weeks of July. This year may turn out to be one of those long hot summers and perhaps very little rain.
Of course here we are familiar with droughts the last couple years and very low water and lake levels too. I hope to go fishing some but maybe in late evenings before the mosquit
With all the incidents lately and the number of people dying I truly believe it is a real blessing being able to open your eyes and see another day! It's almost unbelievable the number of people killed in the last few days and last week.
In the case of the 19 unique and well trained fire fighters in Arizona it is in my mind a real tragedy how the fire turned and gave them no chance to escape. Nevertheless, they all died doing a job of fighting fires and saving lives and property of many in t
