dreinke

Stroke Survivor - male
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  • Birthday 02/29/1956

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  1. dreinke

    Years pass

    It has been years since posting here or replying to content. Too busy living life. Just got back from a two week trip to Spain. I keep busy updating my personal blog and writing chapters in a collaborative stroke book. I barely have enough time writing 5-25 posts a day to visit stroke forums along with a full time job. Deans' Stroke Musings for those who aren't offended by swearing. 11 years and having the time of my life. My 10,000 step a day goal has been going strong for 13 weeks.
  2. Happy Anniversary dreinke!

  3. Well maybe you actually want to do the complete opposite, research on high altitude angiogenesis. But don't listen to anything I have to say, I'm not medically trained. Training the Brain to Survive Stroke at high altitudes
  4. Happy Anniversary dreinke!

  5. And it only took 4 years 1 month. www.oc1dean.blogspot.com I like having my own blog where I can say completely outrageous things like the entire stroke medical world is f-bombed up, and then prove it by pointing to research they should be following. This does not meet Dale Carnegies book, 'How to Win Friends and Influence People'. I will need someone else to play the good cop. http://www.oc1dean.blogspot.com/2014/09/1-million-views-of-this-blog.html
  6. dreinke

    HI ALL

    Sounds like you're doing good Bob. Congratulations.
  7. I have visions and I'm soft in the head, I've actually become smarter and more focused post-stroke. All strokes are immediately diagnosed via the tri-corder into ischemic vs. haemorrhagic. In the ambulance. Then those suitable for tPA are serviced with magnetic nanoparticle tPA that is directed to the exact spot of the blockage via magnets. And since tPA has an appalling 12% efficacy rate we go directly to the stopping of the neuronal cascade of death has been identified with some of these 31 things contributing to this. Specific dead and damaged neurons are helped via angiogenesis, neurogenesis, arteriogenesis, stem cells and scaffolding. The leftover disabilities are helped by the protocols that address exactly how neuroplasticity causes neighboring neurons to help those in need. The complete vision includes almost 100% recovery for every survivor. I see no reason this can't be accomplished. There is enough research out there for most of this already. My 4600 posts can be used as a template for what needs to be done and researched to meet this goal. I challenge the WSO to do better, they have plenty of PhD.s that should know more than me. All stroke survivors questions will be answered via personalized responses to the stroke knowledge database. This will be completely different than the crap answer the National Stroke Association provided to this question. ' What therapies are available for spasticity?' 'This question falls under our organizational guidelines as a medical inquiry and we defer to the medical community to respond. '
  8. 7 years post stroke and I'm getting divorced and glad about it. My wife had unresolved borderline personality disorder so everything had to be done exactly her way. New job in a different location pointed out I was better off by myself.
  9. dreinke

    NeuroAid

    The latest 'research' NeuroAiD, a Stroke Treatment Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine Increases Chances of Recovery Here's a negative review by Peter Levine; http://recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com/2011/04/neuroaid-theives.html Here's a review by Skeptigirl: CAM taking advantage of stroke patients
  10. For your hand try action observation http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22522432 http://gradworks.umi.com/34/87/3487903.html A good dissertation and they even tested this on chronic patients, so as a result therapy departments need to get videos of all kinds of movements for patients to study. This will lead to my looking for hand videos. Video here: and here: And here: And Here: But none of these videos are functional so I guess they are worthless Don't listen to me(I know nuthin) this needs to come from your therapists. Dean
  11. I'll be provocative here. :Rant-On: ARE we having more strokes? WILL they have devastating consequences? These do not overly worry the placidly ensconced. The solution is the responsibility of medical world. YOU do more work. YOU cater to my indifference and confusion. YOU make it easy for me. It's YOUR problem, not mine. This was paraphrased from Tom Toles' comment on saving the environment copied below: ARE we changing the climate? WILL it have devastating consequences? These do not overly worry the placidly ensconced. The environment is the responsibility of "environmentalists". YOU do more work. YOU cater to my indifference and confusion. YOU make it easy for me. It's YOUR planet, not mine. --Tom Toles\ To bluntly paraphrase: Get off your butts and take some responsibility for the stroke solution. No one is doing anything, especially our stroke associations. :growl: :crazysmile: :Rant-Off:
  12. You need to look at the requirements of the job - physical, mental and determine if you can do them, possibly ask for a break in period working 4 hour days to see if you can handle it. If SSDI is involved thats another consideration.
  13. I have mild apnea 6.5 times per hour but I managed to get a CPAP prescribed anyway. I was convinced that would solve my fatigue probem. I finally quit using it when one night I spent 2 hours staying awake concentrating on breathing out against the incoming air. I had the nose only mask so I couldn't relax my lower jaw enough to fall asleep but still keep it locked enough not to let air escape. I gave up on it. I would prefer a dental one but since mine isn't bad I'll just live with it.
  14. I brewed some Irish Draught Ale a couple of months ago and today decided to bottle it by myself(48 bottles). This was quite the challenge since I usually invite a friend over to cap the bottles in return for some of the beer. I have a two-handed capper. Keeping the cap in place while I pry my hand onto one of the levers involves picking the cap up several times. I can't get my wrist to unlock from spasticity so I could never get my upper body weight over the levers to properly crimp the cap. Luckily I only knocked over one bottle. I ended up putting the bottle in one of the slots in a wooden soda case and used my teeth/mouth on one of the levers to get about 15 bottles capped. Then my wife and daughter came home and I got them to finish the capping for me. I try to do this when they are out because both of them dislike the smell or taste of beer. If I continue this I'll have to get a single arm capper . I had a homebrewed coffee stout to celebrate this evening. Sorry about no pictures but that made it too long. Pictures available here: http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2012/03/beer-bottling-stroke-rehab.html
  15. Happy Birthday dreinke!