• 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

attraction

can a person be in a committed relationship and still be attracted emotionally and physically to another person? or should i say, HOW can a person have these feelings? i guess it goes without saying that i'm referring to myself. not that i would ever try to ACT on these feelings, but i have them and i'm not doing anything to stop them. it makes me feel guilty because i have never had them before. but not guilty enough to cease contact with the object of my attraction.   does "the object"
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ChefDenny's Blog

Read my blogs for recipes

Hello All:   When I 'post' a blog, you might want to read it because it might contain a recipe. I know the previous one did - Cooked for a Men's Breakfast.   I'm not complaining, I was just stating a fact. As I 'Blog' more, I will include a 'tried and true' recipe. Stay tuned. In the meantime .........................     Keep on Cookin'   Denny     Party Time Fruit Punch   4 packages Cherry-flavored Kool-aid, unsweetened 2 cans
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rod williams' Blog

Tuesday Night Rant

[size=7 It is Saturday night and I feel fine,   It is a strange world we live on, it's in a strange dimension, I can't decide if I like it or not, on one hand it can be as scary as hell and other moments they are peaceful and nice, but they are rare. This dimension is more normally not peaceful, it is within the realm of animals and therefore far, far from perfect. I mean how far can a zoo go?   All life in the universe is energy based, to prove that, take away all energy and all life
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vmoran's Blog

Dead Roses

I just realized - I have dead roses all over my house.   White roses that the Farleys sent me after Dave died, are in a grapevine wreath.   Pink roses that Jerry gave me for Mother's Day two years ago, sit in an old vase.   Red roses that my sister in law picked from her garden are on a frame, that's also covered in lavendar and moss.   Peach rose buds are attached to the candles, in the living room.   Yellow roses sit on angel in my family room.   There are rose's all over my
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Janice

Much Ado About Nothing

Life for me is very uneventful nowadays so to come up with something every day to blog about is quite difficult. What can I say, I live a very boring life. Deep sigh! I guess no news is good news so I won't complain anymore. OK?
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Michael's Blog

Rambling Entry

Anyone reading my previous blog entry knows that I've had a long day. Currently I'm mentally and physically exhausted, but too tired to sleep. So I'm going to just start writing for my therapy. You're welcome of course to come along for the ride.   In Native American legend there is the legend of the eagle. Eagles when reaching the end of their lives would fly up to the sun. When they got to close their feathers would burst into flames. An eagle would then dive into a river to douse th
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rod williams' Blog

Monday Night Blog

It's Thursday night, I survived again, that's almost a miracle considering that just doing the rudiments of physical labor is enough to remind us that being a species of animal ain't forever, if it were, I'd be kind of sick right about now. Imagine being a human forever, man that would be sick, really sick, puke, puke, puke. There cannot be limitations in a place where there are none, the universe is never ending and all expansive, how could life be limited? It can't.   Whatever we can i
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sam/boston's Blog

weird!

i use to kid,one of the few positive things to come about this stroke deal is it got rid of my tenitus, but this morning i awoke to a full raging ring! hum.........what gives? weird,havent gone to see a lould show in weeks!,loard knows i haven't played with the toys in years,i wonder? a nother step forward?,lets see if this keeps up?
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rod williams' Blog

Humans are a funny lot.

When the Humans species first came into being on this planet, it was in the mid latitudes, it was where it was the warmest, it had to be, life does not come from ice. As atoms heat they become more active just as when they are frozen they become more inactive.   Early humans tend to be dark skinned and hairy, it was best for survivaL, if in those early times a white skinned person were born, either Mother Nature or the Parents would have ended its life knowing that it would only suffer more
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hostpam's Blog

Being a parent[ big sigh]

It just turned noon time in our house today on a Monday and the phone has been ringing off the hook all morning with calls from school. My son is now full blown into those teen years. He speaks his mind, but has yet to stop at the line where he should just shut up and show some self control. He also has ADHD which adds to his disorder, but still no excuse or justification to be disrespectful to a teacher. With each phone call, the evidence against him is mounting. I have wiggled into my mom t
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rod williams' Blog

Time in the physical Universe

Firstly, I thank everyone for the Blog, this is nice.   I am a person who is into science and I like using the scientific method to find an answer. This post is about time, about the human's concept of time.   Before trying to find an answer to a question, it is often a good idea to find the root, the very core of a problem. We are humans, we are a species of animal as evidenced by our canine teeth for ripping flesh from bone, we have remnants of a tailbone and a small reptilian brain in
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garydotgray's Blog

Silly me (grin)

Just a PS   Guess what! I was very silly as I had posted enteries into my blog and did not publish them. (dunce hat and sitting in the corner for sure).   Anyway I will be the first to admit that I am still learning so I am very sorry that the enteries were not published when I posted them.   So now that I found out that they had just been sitting there gathering dust I did post them so you can read them.   I don't know if they will be in the right order or not and you know what? Bec
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garydotgray's Blog

another day

Hello Again   It's Friday Feb 4th 11:30 pm AST. Weather has been great today about 35F and mostly sunny. The Snow actually melted some today.   I had a nice quiet morning and it was noon before I could get turned around twice eh.   I had a nice chat with Stephen S in California on MSN.   April my Home care lady (more like girl as she is engaged to be married this comming summer) came in around 1:45.   After she left I went out for my walk ..took books back to the library and wal
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garydotgray's Blog

Monday Feb7 th

Well here it is Monday Night almost Midnight.Te Weather is still nice was bright sunshine today and a temp around 35 or so F. Well the countdown is getting down to the wire. I hope within he next 24 hours I will be packed and reay to go.   well night night ..talkagain soon eh.   Gary
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garydotgray's Blog

I'm outta here eh

Hi all well it is Tuesday night midnight. My bags are packed and I am waiting for my ride to the airport. It should arrive around 1:30 am then a three hour trip to the airport to check in an hour before the flight. Tuesday was a very nice day here bright sun and nice temps around 40 F. I tried to get some pictures of a Red Bellied Woodpecker today but he was a bit shy. This guy is away outside his home area which is in the Southeastern United States.   I will continue if I am able to find
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garydotgray's Blog

Hi from Vancouver

Hi Everyone   Just a quick note to let you know that I am in Vancouver. Found a public access computer and got to log on for a few minutes.   All is going well, had a safe flight and enjoying the weather very much (no snow eh). So take care and I will blog again when I can.   Today is Feb 16, 05 bright sunshine and about 50 F.   Later and smiles   Gary and sister Irene
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garydotgray's Blog

check in

Hi everyone   It is 10:45 local time on Feb 22, 2005. I am still in Vancouver on a public access computer so thi is a short! check in   talk later   Gary
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garydotgray's Blog

home again ho ho he he

Wel hello again everyone....I'm back!   Well it's Monday April 3rd and I will have been back home on Prince Edward Island for two weeks now.   I had another great flight back lefyt Vancouver airport at 11:45 am on March 21st. We landed in Toronto about 7pm Toronto time and had about an hour delay on the flight to Moncton. Well we flew out of Toronto about 9pm EST and landed in Moncton at midnight AST.   My ride met me at the airport and we got started on the road about 12:30 am. After
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Joy's Blog

Tough days

Today was another one of THOSE days. It was beautiful outside but I did not feel like getting out. These allergies and sinus have got me by the throat, literally, and won't let go. Maybe if I wasn't so fat - I would not be so easy to get down with this gunk. Hans hasn't felt really good either. We had a really late breakfast and then Phyllis and Wes brought us plates from a benefit that we would liked to have gone to. That was lunch and supper all in one. We had desert and juice later on
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hostcindy's Blog

Mr. Righty

My husband did the funniest thing. He has a great sense of humor that was lost the first year and a half after his stroke. And has increasingly been coming back.   I'm always nagging him about using his right hand because he forgets. Uh, what about the right hand? Will you use the right one please? Mr. Righty is just hanging there. Giving him "a look" when the glass he is holding is about to spill because he forgets he's holding it. Now the therapist is the one who started with the "Mr. Right
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Michael's Blog

A blast from the past

WOW! It's amazing what you find when you start packing to move. I have a bad habit of being a pack rat, and I've decided to start a throwing away party this move.   I found an old journal I kept when I was 15-17 years of age. Most of it is "what the heck was I thinking?". This one caught my eye though. It's a song that I wrote the lyrics for and a friend of mine put to guitar. I wish I could remember his name now, but it escapes me.   I am Me (You are You)   Lyrics by: Michael T.
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kimberly9's Blog

slobbism

i am one of the cleanest, well groomed and well dressed people to the near point of obsessive compulsive. about my personal appearance and my vehicle, that is. when it comes to my home, I LIVE LIKE A PIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! no matter how many times i clean up the house, it gets right back like it was in split second timing. i can't blame it on buford and ash, while junky little packrats, they're pretty neat people.   NOT ME!!! every so often i rent a bunch of movies and have an al
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hostpam's Blog

Mindfulness Map

Mindfulness. I of course have just read Jean's blog on building your own violin. Oddly enough, this topic is one I have explored in different ways recently. Another way of understanding mindfulness, is to be aware of what you are doing, how you react, what you say. As a survivor, be aware where you are placing the affected foot. I am reading a book right now that explores this, "Zen and the art of Motorcycle maintenance".I'm really enjoying this book, I find it hard the level of concentration I
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