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I spent several hours online yesterday morning trying to help a friend search for missing classmates so we can contact them about the 45 year high school reunion scheduled for next August. I’m not actually on the committee, but offered to help out in any way that I could. I have managed to track down a couple dozen addresses and some phone...

From time to time we reach some sort of turning point and I realise that something that was once easy for us to do as a couple is no longer possible. I guess with spring now approaching and seeing summer ahead with all it’s enticements I am again listing what Ray and I can do and what we can’t do. And I sit here mourning the losses and...

I am new to this website, but have read many of your experiences with stroke and find this to be very comforting and informative. My Dad had a stroke in april of this year, he is 61 (I am 32). I would like to know any of your experiences with post stroke denial, where the stroke survivor really feels that they can do something that they cant. I...

New to site, new to blogging. Had a stroke 2 years and 4 months ago and still have found no one in the same position to talk with. I am hoping to have finally found a way to reach out. I was a happy owner of a real estate company-my first bump in the road was an employee I found out was steeling from me, in the months of cleaning up that mess I...

I haven't blogged in a few days and I'm just marking time right now being released from a 2 day stay at the hospital for observations! I'm still a happy person just with a little more pains than usual. That hurts! My wife is ready to put me to work on her computer. I bought her a new one. The last one, a guy sold me, was no...

I will be getting a Stephen's minister and so will William. I was describing my life to the counselor and she could not believe that i do so much. She said that with my schedule the minister would have to get in touch with me at 1AM in the morning. I told her that that is about the case.

I shared with her about William's stroke...

today, Dana is sleeping a lot. I guess it's due time, he hasn't slept properly since his stroke. we got some sleeping pills prescribed yesterday, so I hope the half of one he took is working. I worry he will become quickly depressed, as this is a past issue for him. I don't mind him sleeping, I just pray it is because his brain is...

I am alive! I lived through 3 strokes. Found out I have cns vasculitis through a brain biopsy. My kids dont call me or see how I am doing. I suffer from depression. I have daily headaches, pain in my hips and I am just having a bad day. I hate it. I am blessed to be alive, but I am miserable.

So, what’s new with me? Well, in my opinion; not too much. Deb and I were recently in Arizona to attend a Fleet Reserve Association in Tucson. We took a side trip down to Tombstone. Now, that was interesting. We walked through the Boot Heel cemetery and saw where Tom and Frank McLaury, and Billy Clanton, who died at the gunfight at the Ok...

This last weekend was one of our 3 day weekends. My facility has a 9/80 schedule which means we can take every other friday off. Kinda nice!
I sometimes use that off day to visit Craig Rehab Hospital where I did my post stroke in-patient rehab for about 2 months. Nice to see the folks whom I credit with helping give my life back. This...