• 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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Janice

Hard Worker

My hubby is such a hard worker...he does his regular 40 hr/wk job which actually is more like 60 hr /wk...overtime. Then he goes to his sister's on Saturday(this morning) and spreads dirt and hauls stuff to the dump. Then he goes to neighbor's back yard....the mister(Del) died in March. Hubby proceeds to move the junk Del had laying all around and stack it in the corner of the yard and then re-seed grass seed in the places where grass hasn't been able to grow for years. All of this is at
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rod williams' Blog

Monday nigh football.

I've got to add a quick blog, ms. is going to the post office and I are driving... hee haw.   Actually I want to drive, she's tired and I have a lot of paying back, she was the caregiver and was there every day, she found strength in what she was suddenly faced with, if she had not taken me to the hospital that fateful July day, I reckon that I would not be typing this. Ain't no big thing, don't get hung up on being a little old species of animal. Today was a good day to die just as tomorro
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hostpam's Blog

put money where mouth is

For the past few days, I've been struggling with a dilema. One part of the dilema involved the barn of course, we could get around the zoning issue if we didn't put in a kitchen. I have been resistant to that idea entirely. One because I looked at that as a step down from what I have. Two, I plan on living there for a long time. So Thursday I walked up to the neighbors house that owns the field behind us, I knocked on her door introduced myself and asked if she would sell me a strip of land, she
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vmoran's Blog

It's my blog and I can scream if I want to!

Hey Vicki! I put the invitations in the mail today--early this morning---steve had to get rid of some viruses on the somputer for the programs I need for the invites to work--sorry it took so long--hope you like them--I sent 16 with envelopes--for you to pass along to whomever--right now i'm making some cds and doing some snack bukets loaded with pictures of Jerry--then I'll be mounting some pictures for display and I do have some decorations for 50th and 50 ish napkins---shall i get plates and
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rod williams' Blog

From time to time I feel this way.

I'll tell you where my problem lays... I don't want to be human, that goes against current human thinking. Most all humans think that being a species of animal is the right thing to do, they claim that they actually like it, to them it's the only thing to be, either be a human or be dead. D.E.A.D.     Therein lies my depression.   Being a human or another species of animal, even a vegetable, fruit, blade of grass can not be all that can be in this never ending universe. We are in a uni
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kimberly9's Blog

ROD

this blog is dedicated to rod williams, one of our newer members.   rod has caused me many thought provoking moments with his genius commentaries. he has also taken me on SEVERAL "magic carpet rides" with his insight, wit, and original methods of story telling. rod is rod. he doesn't claim to be anything else. rod is REAL.   rod has a hip, flower child kind of existence which must make him and his loved ones live with a sense of freedom that most of us will never experience. rod is
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rod williams' Blog

Stroke Support

Before I found StrokeNet , I found this one: http://www.medhelp.org/perl6/StrokeRehab/wwwboard.html   It is pretty much of a joke, I have posted the address to StrokeNet from time to time. The doctor who comments always says basically the same thing and it takes him many days to answer if at all, he says: Check with your neurologist. I've tried to answer questions also, I had a few hits but it's hard to really tell what's going on.
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Janice

Aging with grace...what is that?

My Grandmother aged with grace...why can't I get in the groove of accepting getting older? I'd rather kick and pout about the things that frustrate and inconvenience me... 1)like not being able to read up close without the use of glasses. 2)HOT Flashes have begun to attack. and I mean attack. 3)Also, I used to be able to pluck the few whiskers that appeared on my chin and now, I use an electric shaver every morning...yuk...how feminine is that? 4)Gaining weight is far easier than takin
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kimberly9's Blog

BAD HAIR DAY

my BAD night rolled right over into a BAD HAIR DAY TODAY!!!!!!! i bought this fancy new cell phone that does EVERYTHING including cable chanel access. JUST got it on saturday. SO, i'm on the phone with a good friend of mine and then BLAM, it cuts off and won't even take a charge. i was LIVID. so, today i am phoneless and keep checking messages from the land line and hear all of these panicky messages because clients can't reach me. it never occurs to them to call my office.   THEN, i had
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hostpam's Blog

Search has only just begun

Well I started the search for a place to live, talked to two people today. Could have had one place, but no kids, no Petey the Pom, no kids even overnight for a visit. I thanked her for her time but said I had just started my search and I would keep looking. But I hate the personal invasive questions. It makes me grit my teeth to admit that yes, I am getting a divorce, things didn't work out after 19 years and I left it at that.   I refuse to give into the husband bashing. I'd love to tell
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Janice

Need a new watch

I get to go shopping for either a new watch or watchband....I get the cheap kind of watch.. So I'm off to Walmart in search of a new watch or watchband.. I know the watchband would be a cheaper solution but only if the clerk would change the watchband for me...my fine dexterity is shot not to mention my close eyesight is none-existant. My arms seem to get shorter all the time..ie I can't see things up close. My eyesight frustrates me most of all my aging shortcomings. I'm constantly havi
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kimberly9's Blog

vacation

i have come to the realization that i haven't had a vacation since 1999. oh, unless you count the hospital and recuperation time from the stroke last year. my husband takes little "trips" all of the time with his friends. today i told him that i was going to the beach BY MYSELF next week. he then had the audacity to say " well, that's when i'm taking off for that golf tournamant". i saId " i don't care what arrangements you have to make for ashley, i am going, and that's the end of it". he t
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hostcindy's Blog

Another bump.surgery

Well I was told yesterday I get to have surgery because of a cyst found on my right ovary. My options are to have the ovary removed through the belly button and then have a DNC, burning the uterus lining because of hormone issues caused by the cyst. Or a complete hysterectomy. The doctor will try the hysterectomy through the belly button and leave the cervix. I think I'll opt for the hysterectomy and if she has to cut me then take the cervix too. (Maybe I'll ask for a tummy tuck while she's
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Joy's Blog

Yippee - another word

This has been a wonderful day. Hans said a new word this morning. "Coffee" It was a real celebration. He has also taken up saying "Shewee" when anything needs washing or he thinks it is dirty. When he is wet or dirty - when I come in to check on him - he grins and says "Shewee". I call that reall improvement. All the powers that be have told me there won't be any improvement but I kinda guess they are wrong. We even have a little movement in the affected leg every now and then. Maybe o
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Janice

Haircut/color day

Today, I got the grey shoved back in...same effect...haircut and color job. The only time I read the *beep* tabloids is when at my hairdresser's. I wasn't aware Brittney Spears was married nor pregnant. I love to watch MAD TV and they do a fabulous spoof of Ms Spears. Comedy Central does reruns of MAD TV otherwise I would miss seeing their genius. WHy do the networks put all the good shows on at the same time? I guess that's why there are reruns, huh?  
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cyndip's Blog

Hating Life

Ok, I know this is going to sound bad..........now we all know it! I hate life. This just isn't right. I sit here and do nothing all day long. I hate it. It is rainy and cold outside, so I can't go out and sit in the yard. I just don't know what to do. There are no jobs in this town! I am getting depressed very quickly. My highlight for the day was going to the post office to mail my taxes! Now we are having fun. I just can't keep this up much longer. They are going to have to commit
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Becky from Chicago...... its Blog Time

What the hell is wrong with people????

I honestly can not tell if my parents are on my side or not. Everything that comes out of their mouth is so negative. Like, I will never get a job is a wheelchair, I will never live on my own, etc... Damn. It isn't like I asked for this. I thought family was supposed to be supportive not make you feel worse. Then they have the nerve to say that I don't act upset enough. I am so sorry, I guess i'll just stay in my room all the time and never come out. It doesn't matter, what ever i do, its wrong.
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Linda 315's Blog

FEELING BLUE

For the past few days I've been feeling down. I'm tired of having half my body asleep and heavy. It's really wearing me down and I wonder how long I can keep this up. I know I have no choice but I'm just soooooo tired of it. Just had to unload.
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kimberly9's Blog

dessert island

i haven't misspelled desert island. i'm naming mine DESSERT, because after i thought about it, many of the people i have chosen to be stranded with have to do with food, the obtaining of it, and the preparing it.     THE SUBJECT: if i went on a "three hour tour" with some friends from strokenet and got stranded like gilligan, who would i chose and why? i gave it a lot of thought and while there were MANY people i'd chose, i narrowed it down to a few. here they are and why   CINDER: becau
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ChefDenny's Blog

Recipe for Salt Substitute

Since most of us are on a No-Salt or a Low-Sodium diet, here is what I use instead of salt.     Salt Substitute   3 Bay leaves, broken into pieces 3 teaspoons dried minced onions 2 teaspoons dried rosemary, crushed 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon dried marjoram 1 teaspoon rubbed sage 1 teaspoon dried thyme 1/2 teaspoon lemon-pepper seasoning 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper  
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hostpam's Blog

When it all comes together

Today is a beautiful sunny breezy Monday morning, very early spring, it has the promise of a few more days or weeks and I can shed my winter coat. I went out on the deck in my bare feet, but in less the five minutes my tootsies were freezing, so it isn't that mild yet. I just made a pot of coffee, testing a new brand, I ordered my cigarettes from the Indians, sent back my DVD's to Blockbuster, all in all a pretty sucessful day so far. I feel calm, in control, I have a plan to resolve where I'
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