• 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

100 things about me

1)I have curly/wavy hair 2)my husband and I were both 31 when we married 3)I don't eat organ meats(eg liver, gizzard, heart, etc.) 4)I'm 5' 8 5/8 " tall 5)I've had the same hairstyle for 25+ years....if it ain't broke, dont' fix it... is my motto 6)I have many interests thus many piles of stuff sitting around..a pack rat 7)prestroke I ran my own photography business out of my home for 18+ years 8)my favorite part of photography was/is weddings...I love the romance 9)my son is 20
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vmoran's Blog

Mr. Wonderful

I am so mad I could spit! - not really ... spitting is gross - but, it's a damn good expression!   I worked all week (and it was the week from hell!) and told myself I'd really clean the bathroom (scrape the crevices of the grout with a toothpick, CLR everything, even detach the toilet seat to make sure everything was spotless) Something Ryan and Jerry couldn't fathom when they "pick up".   I'd cook a fabulous dinner (you know about the 6 hours preparing it - or read my last entry) - do
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vmoran's Blog

Making Pasta!

I made tortellini today.   Using my Grandmother's recipe and her old mercato pasta machine I hand cranked for hours. I kept telling myself it was physical therapy because I had to re-do the lengths of pasta many times. When you hand crank pasta you have to be consistent or the dough is thinner in some places. Right handed cranking left me with a lot odd textured pasta! I made spaghetti noodles first. It's easy because you just crank the flattened dough through a cutter. My left arm cranked th
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Janice

Call me EEYORE, :)

I guess all my life I've felt like Eeyore, going around with a cloud over my head. My environment growing up taught me to consider outsiders with extreme caution and to never let my guard down. ie, never let anyone know how you really feel or you'll be sorry. Recently, this warning has been reinforced by an actual experience one that happened here at strokenet. I now come here with fear and trepidation, hoping I don't offend anyone and with somewhat a muzzle on, knowing that if I say too
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julie44's Blog

Another learning experience

Saturday, end of a very busy week. Today I have decided I'm not going anywhere. Tony being on holidays has meant going out most days, which has been nice but tiring.   I had noticed some members spoke of hand help computers and how they had helped with memory problems. I bought an iPAQ Pocket PC h2210 yesterday hoping it will help me with my short term memory. Thought I could just follow the instructions in the brochure to set it up but there is something I'm not doing right. I Can't get
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ssanchez's Blog

Nervous

I just found out that one of the woman at the hospital support group that I go to has had another stroke .   Thats makes me nervous to think that could happen to me, so I am now thinking all the time am I going to have another stroke?   I know in one of my writings I said if I do I do but now it is finally hitting me it can happen at anytime. But now I have my guard up and watching every move I make and starting to really eat healthy and will start to do some exercises.
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sam/boston's Blog

PROBLEM SOLVED PART 2

well...it's been a whirlwind 48 hours,really found out what was going on with the computer.came to ahead last eek my mouse died,so i was off line for a little while so yesterday i went & got a new mouse& a new comphy mouse pad& sence i was out& about i got a new phone(wireless)& it has a jack for my headset,nomore tiered arm balencing resever crap,so i'm pretty happy!!looks like the guitar comming together my guy bidding on a after market pick-up(by all acouts sounds better
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kimberly9's Blog

a "surprise" friend

since i've decided to slam just about everyone i know for being inconsiderate clods, it's only FAIR that i remember the FEW who REALLY made a difference to me with their kindness.     a week after i came back to work( you could CALL it that, i mostly sat in a stupor) dad hired a new appraiser trainee named jimmy. he was REALLY young ( 26) and just out of college and MILES from his hometown. IMMEDIATELY the other clods that i work with started laughing behind his back, telling him the
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Janice

Janice the Grouch

Well, I changed my mind, I will continue to blog but will not post anymore to threads as I don't want to be accused of flaming anyone. If the shoe fits..... I just cannot see why one would criticize anyone for their attitude. Just because that person doesn't have your PC attitude and 'vents' their frustration, doesn't give you the right to condem another. I don't appreciate being told my massive stroke as the doctors told me it was...that they consider my stroke mild in comparison to theirs.
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cyndip's Blog

Life's Missing Something

Over the past few weeks, I have came to a conclusion. My life is missing something. It's not because my life is my mom and dad now. I am really missing something. I think it is memories. I don't remember alot from when I was growing up. I don't know if it is intentional or just plain don't remember. I remember bits and pieces of things. I have started trying to find high school friends and elementary friends. I am really trying to find what my life is missing. Material wise, I have eve
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kimberly9's Blog

invitations to give gifts

there are several hundred people who i interacted with in my life before my stroke including friends, extended family, co-workers, my husband's church members, etc.... i have ALWAYS been the one to host baby showers, bridal showers, anniversary parties, birtyhday parties, etc... i ALWAYS enjoyed it, at least i DID. talk about a WAKE UP CALL!!!!!!!!!!   it wasn't until i had the stroke that i realized how NAIVE and GULLIBLE i had been all of my life. it never crossed my MIND that i was p
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Janice

Flaming those who don't agree with you

This morning I experience a very disappointing interaction when I posted to a thread that shall not be named. I was trying to make the point that one shouldn't bully someone for having an attitude different than your own.. eg. Having a half empty attitude vs the half full view point. I felt as though the one who has the half empty attitude is looked down on as inferior and it is not acceptable to have a half empty view of my life. I cannot vent on this without gettin some specifics ment
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ctaylor2's Blog

Like a Rolling Stone

Yes Once again it seems to me my furture's so bright I just gotta wear shades. I really enjoy these days they seem so rare now. Falling the excellent advice some of the members have give me you take one day at time and sometimes you take it an hour at a time. I must say I don't know where I would be today without those session where some members let me cry my eyes out and sit down and wail in the pool of pity before saying Come on things get better time passes life goes on. I still have those ti
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kimberly9's Blog

REVENGE

i already know that revenge ...."only hurts you", but right about this moment, i don't feel ANY pain!!!!! i think that revenge is one of my character flaws. HOWEVER, there comes a time when the line between "being nice" and being a "doormat" come VERY close together. what made me think about it was that my co-worker who i have shared office space with for FIVE years just asked me for a ride.   i'll start at the beginning. i have ALWAYS tried to be good to my fellow man. that includes famil
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Janice

Should I repair ring on my own?

My 21st wedding anniversary is coming up on the ninth of this month. Last summer I lost the diamond out of my wedding ring and couldn't find it. So, I haven't worn my ring since then. I miss wearing it. I realize we can't afford to buy another diamond, but a cubic zirconia is cheap and I wonder if I should just go ahead and take the ring to a jeweler to have a cubic put in, and keep praying that the diamond will be found? I've hinted to hubby in the past I'd like to get a cubic but he is de
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hostpam's Blog

Not a pretty post-venting

One of the reasons I liked the whole blog idea right from the first was the ability to vent, to be politically incorrect or just be in a bad mood and no one can say a word or puke all over my blog. It isn't a post on the board where I must balence a fine line between being Marry Poppins and understanding. But I find lately that those survivors that have suffered mild strokes, just can't deal. Maybe I'm at a stage where I have burn out over the whole stroke business. I know I am on one side of th
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Charles' Blog

Will questions be answered?

I got the MRI done this past Saturday. The appointment with my Neuro is next Friday. Will questions be answered? More specifically. Will the right questions be answered? Did I have a Stroke? Did I suffer Migraine Headaches? Did I suffer something worse?   Charles Ramsey
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Janice

NEED A NEW PURSE

I am so frustrated, I tried to find a new purse this afternoon. I went to 7 different stores and saw the same useless design at all. I swear whomever designs purses doesn't use a purse. GRRRRRR It has to be a man, because they all have the same big hole in the middle which is fine for carrying your husbands wallet, but not useful for everyday use in trying to find anything. I wish I knew who I could contact to give them a piece of my mind, what's left of it. Why can't designers consult cons
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tparson's Blog

Lost the Baby :(

I lost the baby on 2/22. I had what is known as a tubal pregnancy. They could not see the baby but knew something was wrong. I went in to the hospital on the 21st with the worst pain I have ever had. After doing a vaginal u/s for 2 hrs. and finding nothing; My OBGYN decided she could wait no longer and opted for exploritory sugery to find out what was wrong.   When she got in she found that the baby had implanted in the very edge of my right tube where it connected to the utterus. The tube ha
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kimberly9's Blog

THE PIANO TEACHER

my mother has taught private piano lessons for as LONG as i can remember. for about ten years she also served as an assitant director for an academy for performing arts here in montgomery. she has ALWAYS wanted me to follow in her footsteps, and she finally got her chance back in 1990.   mother started out the conversation GLOWINGLY   MOTHER: you know, with your musical talents, ALL of your performances, your SUPERIOR ratings in all of the musical festivals, your accompaniment with choi
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Janice

Nothing new

I do get tired of the same old,same old. There is never nothing new in my life, Although not all new things are good news....eg....my stroke was a new thing for me back in 2001. Life is boring when you have no responsibilitiess..no job, no life,nothing to look forward to. I'm just in a complaining mood I guess.
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Janice

Do it over again?

I wonder if given a second chance, what really would I do different if given a chance to do it again? The big question along with that chance would be would I know what I know now then? Could I use my current knowledge to "do it again"? Certainly if allowed my present knowledge I would do many things differently, but really would I do anything diffferent if not given any different knowledge? I felt I was doing the best I could at the time when doing it the first time. OK, mothers, I went
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