• A  blog is a personal journal of your daily life as a stroke survivor or stroke caregiver.  Surprisingly, countless members have called it therapeautic to write down their thoughts and to vent their frustrations.  You can make it private, just for your eyes or public and share your personal thoughts with your friends.  Why not try it, create your blog and start writing and see if it helps you.  

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  • swilkinson

    Living on angel time.

    By swilkinson

    I went to see the neurosurgeon on Tuesday. I was interviewed by a young Asian associate doctor and sent for a 3D MRI and angiogram, a brand new way of showing  the blood supply within the brain. The results were given to me by the associate and then I saw the specialist. It appears the aneurysm is larger and deeper than previously thought but at my age they are not going to operate as it would mean a full brain surgery. Coiling, one method of dealing with an aneurysm, is not an option. I think I
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kimberly9's Blog

SOUNDS

i am copy catting mrsamymichelle's idea for this blog cause i thought it was a neat idea.       SOUNDS I LIKE   1) a storm 2) the purring of a cat (s) 3) chiming of a grandfather clock 4) church bells playing music in the distance 5) waterfalls 6) the breathing of a man i love on my neck 7) the ocean 8) the sound my cell makes when i have a text msg, it's usually from a close friend 9)"your table's ready" 10) SILENCE   SOUNDS I HATE   1) ringing telephones 2)
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Janice

Unlimited Resources

Would my life actually be better if I had unlimited resources? My home would be different in that I'd have more than one toilet among other things.... like I'd have a 4 seasons room where I could sit inside and watch the squirrels and birds and keep dry and warm. So could my 2 fat cats. I'd also have a jacuzzi. But would I go the route of having plastic surgery....liposuction...tummy tuck, etc.? Depending on the source of all that unlimited resources, I'd have my hubby home all the ti
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hostpam's Blog

Fufillment

Fufillment. This word has been bouncing around my head, weaving itself in and out of my thoughts today. My thoughts are not of the upbeat positive quality. I think I should stay away from reading philosphy and bits of quantum mechanics and quantum physics before 8 in the morning. It is too heavy and overtaxed the damaged brain I have. That is the only excuse I can find for a sad dark mood today. I'm impatient today too. I can't use any of my tricks to ignore and not think about the demise of
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rod williams' Blog

The Sound of Logic

Ka ching... no, no, just kidding.   A better world, can we do it?, can we do it without violence? Can we make it fun?   I was taught to eat 3 meals each day and also drink 3 glasses of cow's milk, I was taught that I needed to eat meat, beef, pork, poultry, cheese and if I couldn't get any of that then beans.   Unfortunately that is 2 meals per day too many.   Imagine taking a tiger from its natural habitat, feed it 3 meals a day for two weeks, what do you got?   I rewrote th
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mrsamymichelle's Blog

sounds

I have been thinking a lot lately of my favorite sounds, I will share with you a list.   1. My husband unlocking the front door after he has been to work. That means he got home safely from his commute from work. 2. My daughter laughing, and playing as she jumps on her trampoline. 3. The knock on our back door, signifying the neighbor kids want to play with daughter. 4. The sound of the ice cream truck running through the neighborhood in the summer. 5. The special ring ou
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hostpam's Blog

9P.m. close to bedtime

I'm ready to shut the computer off. Today was a better day then yesterday.My son went for the day to one friends house then went over night to anothers at 7:30. The two people that my daughter invited over can't come for various reasons and I'll admit it, I'm glad. You know I always thought I'd never have kids, never wanted them, never pictured myself as a mom. Well as these things happen, I changed my mind, had the desire to have kids. Pre stroke I did alot for and with my kids, but now, I don'
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ssanchez's Blog

Feeling pretty good

When I woke up today I got ready as usual took my kids to school I was thinking oh oh thinking thats bad for me. What can I do different today so the thought came to me bike riding that sounds good so when getting back from taking them to school. I got the bike off the bike rack where it was hanging I took off to a park and went for a bike ride my balance was ok I was able to ride. I rode for about 1/ 2 hour at least there were lots of people out at the park walking around so I felt comfortabl
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Janice

only one bathroom for 3+ people

Two days ago, I came home from a short errand... Of course I had to pee again. I went straight to the bathroom...the door was closed. Some of my son's friends who have come over in the past have left the bathroom door shut when they leave. Our family's habit is to leave the bathroom door open when leaving there...our two cat's water and food dishes are in the bathroom. So I lightly knocked on the door and no answer. I really had to pee so I didn't wait long....I turned the doorknob.... M
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hostpam's Blog

What a day!

I sit here this morning. I am just soaking up the peace and quiet. Today is a brand new day, yesterday is over, the sun went down, the sun came up. The energy level of the house is at a quiet hum. They are all still in bed asleep.THANK GOD!!!!! This week my kids are home from school on break. Yesterday was a day that pre stroke would have had me over the edge. Post stroke, it wiped me out. It all started out ok enough, coffee and a smoke on the deck, soaking up the sun, listening to the bir
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Janice

Delayed Gratification

I'm wondering if my depression is due to having delaying gratification and then being slammed into a wall with a stroke. So, now, I feel cheated of the rewards of waiting... As a child, I was unconsciously trained to think: I'll be happy when... We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren't old enough and we'll be more content when they are. After that, we're frustrated that we have teenager
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ssanchez's Blog

Different man

My Daughter has been asking me to shave off my stash so this morning I was in the mood and wala it came off So I know I look like a different man. but its ok its whats in the heart that counts I need to reevaluate my life and what I intend on doing with it . I seem to be going nowhere I need to get in gear and do something, no matter what becomes of social security weather I get it or not but I am going to fight for it , believe me I will.   When I say going nowhere I mean I feel as i
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tparson's Blog

Fully released!

Well, I have now been released from all my doctors! I went for my final follow up with my obgyn on the 5th and she said that I was all healed up and that everything looked good. She asked if Lee had given any more thought on getting a vasectomy and we told her that he was having the procedure done that very afternoon. So now that he is "fixed" we shouldn't have to worry about my getting pregnant again.   I admit that a part of me is sad at the thought of not having another baby. We wa
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rod williams' Blog

Monday is Funday

I love being a human, it is so much fun, I hope that I can be a human forever and ever. Yeah humans, yea.   I've had several experiences with death sort of, in reality the stroke didn't kill me but I don't remember it either, I felt sleepy, I lay down to take a little nap, woke up 7 weeks later.   If I had not woken up I still may be alive right now, barely. Being tube fed is not a lot of fun, I don't remember it at all, I do not remember anything during that period, I did have some
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vmoran's Blog

Ryan's IEP

Ryan's IEP was today. That's an "individualized education program" meeting. They told us what we already knew. We have a great, funny, smart, disorganized kid who hates to do homework. So what else is new?   Ryan never told his teachers, his counselor, his tutor about my stroke. Robin - his guidance counselor assumed I had a drinking problem as my speech is worse at night then it is during the day - call me (after I've been up since 6 am) at 8 pm and I sound drunk. By 8:30 - I'm asleep. I
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cyndip's Blog

Attitude Adjustment

Ok, so I have given myself a major attitude adjustment. Maybe it was just riding around on the lawnmower drinking beer, I don't know. I feel like someone has put life into this body again. I'm still looking for a job with no avail.... But I don't care right now. No I wasn't drinking today, this happened on Saturday. My husband and I spent the day outside doing yard work. So I don't have as much yard as Cinder. I only have 2 acres, but it is work. One acre is nothing but trees. And
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kimberly9's Blog

INCONGRUOUS BELIEFS

i have done a complete re-assessment of my personal views on certain beliefs i hold in the last fews month to try to make sense out of them. maybe writing it will jolt my brain.     i believe in pro choice and the death penalty but think that murder is wrong. how can i believe in part but not in whole. where did i get the idea that some forms of murder are acceptable, and some not. how is murder truly defined, i wonder. we have "justifiable homicide", and legal abortion at certain trimest
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hostpam's Blog

Mother/Daughters

I'm 41 years old and my mother still hasn't gotten over the fact that I am different then her. I always have been, always will be. My mother was brought up to depend on the man, always wear red lipstick when you leave the house, lean on the "man of the house" to make all the decisions, let the man wear the pants type of thing. Well I missed a class somewhere along the way in how to lean on a man. Sorry, I don't need them to do my thinking for me, I can handle the bills, I have my own checking
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mrsamymichelle's Blog

100 things about me

Okay, Here goes my 100 thing list:   1. I was 27 when I had my stroke 2. I am now 29 yrs. old 3. I was only 23 when I had heart surgery on a congenital cleft mitral valve 4. Dr.'s think that my stroke was caused from my mitral valve throwing a clot 5. I was bulemic and anorexic in high school and college.(for 8yrs) 6. I was in college when I admitted I had a problem,and seeked help. 7. I was once broken up with in college for being "too superficial" 8. In college I accid
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rod williams' Blog

Sunday Blog

Blog, blog, blog, blog, the troops are marching.javascript:emoticon(':blah_blah:')   Marching off to war, with the X of Jesus, Going on before.   Strangely enough both the Christian Countries who are involved in the war and the Muslim Countries have the same God, according to the Torah, the Koran and the Old Testament, Allah, Jehovah VH1, God, Bob, they are all are the same person.javascript:emoticon(':sleazy:')   Dear God, help me kill mine enemies says the Christian, Dear Allah,
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Janice

Content blocks

Thanks to Jean, I've discovered and begun to use my content blocks....found to the right of my blog entry. I hope you're reading my blocks and are enjoying the information. I only wish I could rearrange the sequence they appear. ENJOY
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Joy's Blog

Trip to Bluebonnet Festival

Yesterday really set in stone that Hans just does not do crowds well anymore. I wanted so bad to go to our Annual Bluebonnet Festival here in town. Being a small town and designated as the Bluebonnet Capital, it a big thing - closed off streets and all the hoopla. People do come from all over on big buses and vans to see all the pretty Bluebonnets that grow around here. There are booths set up on two blocks of Main Street and lots of neat things to see (and buy). I got Hans all dressed up a
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kimberly9's Blog

HEY YA'LL!!!!!!!

since janice (jstern) decided to poke fun at my talkin southern, i decided to let ya'll yankees in on some of our "southern stuff" so's you'd get to know me a little betta.     we do weird stuff to our food and eat weird things. like, we sweeten our tea( not me but everybody else) and then put a sour lemon in it. we put hot sauce on EVERYTHING. we can't have greens ( turnips) without hamhock in it and cornbread with a raw onion. we eat banana sandwiches with peanut butter on it. we like
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rod williams' Blog

Depression

Depression is normal for every thinking person, If depression was not normal it would mean that we live in a really good world, organized, fun, exciting, logical, peaceful for all. Even our pets are depressed, in many ways they have it worse, how would you like to wear a collar, how would you like to be in a small tank swimming in old water, how would you like to be in a cage, staring into a dirty mirror at yourself year after year? Depression is normal, be happy if you are depressed, that mea
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