I hadn't said anything because I didn't really know but at different appointments I had last week my heart beat was slow, so slow I couldn't get my injections done in my knees!! He didn't want to take any chance!! So off I go to a heart doctor referred by my PCP and my appointment came up really fast, sorta scared me not knowing what a slow heart beat really meant!!!
I'm hooked up y'all and being monitored for four days then a battery of test including a final echo test then I get the news h
Some moms can be fooled so easily and some moms you would think they are the grandparents how the young daughters can tell them anything and they believe them when you can't trust they cleaned up their room when they said they did!!
Darla's Doctor's Visit
A mother takes her 16-year-old daughter to the doctor.
The doctor says, "Okay, Mrs. Jones, what's the problem?" :zoro:
The mother says, "It's my daughter Darla. She keeps getting these cravings, she's putting on we
OK, step parents and grand parents, be honest, did you know about these special days on your calendar??? Honestly I knew about grand parents day last Sunday it was the subject of our weekly bulletin!! Today step parents day was mentioned but no bulletin!!
Those two categories of parents and children make up a large percentage of the population of people in America and no doubt in other countries around the world!! With me having been married four times before the age of 50 I got my share of
I'm nearing nine years after my stroke and I have that many years in discovering how strokes are in each person's life and the number of other people it affects! When you think you are the only one with a problem all you need to do is read some of the members blogs!! We are all in the same boat and the problems are more for some and maybe less for others but overall we are going through the same hoops dealing with recovery of a stroke and giving care to the survivors around the world!
Being
TIME is so important to us! Sometimes we don't seem to have enough of it because we want to do so many things!! HOWEVER:
Take time to think, it is the source of power!!
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth!!
Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom God knows we all need that!!
Take time to pray, it is the greatest power on earth!!
Take time to love and be loved, it is a God-given privilege and needed in this world today!!
Take time to be friendly
If you haven't heard about this outbreak yet in Texas let me tell all of you!! It hit in Dallas real hard with many deaths reported! Today I hear the news that it has spread to the lower 48 states so that is everywhere except Hawaii and Alaska!!
I hope everyone listens to the advise in your areas and stay indoors from dusk to dawn then wear long sleeves and pants when you do have to be outside!! This is serious and it will kill you if you are bitten!! In my county only one have died but othe
Tomorrow 1 September we enter into a new season (Fall)!! while other parts of the world has a different season coming then of course we all will welcome winter while it will be summer in other places!
Those folks up north will head south to Florida or maybe Arizona and enjoy the weather there soaking up the sun!! Meanwhile the fall will prep us for winter and putting up Christmas trees for the kids
I hope all of us will continue our recovery process with our exercises and therapy because
Boy, this has been a week of newbie post and comments sounding just like I did when I first came here looking for all the help I could find! I just hope as a senior member I gave them a bit of encouragements to continue therapy and doing all they can to get their bodies working again to be more independent and not having to depend on the care giver as much as they did at first!!
Strokes are the one thing many people know nothing about in how to get better and in the recovery process! Even in
I have experienced many things in the last several weeks and months so now I just hope nothing unusual happens and the rest of the month will pass with no surprises of course we don't always get what we want! A couple of members are talking about the cool weather and we are still cooking here in Texas with 100 degree heat and better for 27 day since July!! More are predicted so between gas for the car, food on the table and AC bill money, I will be short for sure!! That's life nothing works out
I had a pretty good Saturday today starting with a breakfast with church brothers at Golden Corral here in Killeen! I did a BBQ this evening all by myself and that turned out OK even if I did sit on my scooter, my wife marinated the meat so I just had to cook it!!
Then about 840pm I got a call that made me feel sick saying one of the wounded warriors that I had worked with a long, long time had expired!!!! The guy lived not far from me but got all his therapy from the military base!! He lost
I was just sitting here staring at the TV screen/computer monitor and thinking?, knowing I can't do two things at once?? Anyway many of our members here no doubt know of the shooting at the movie theater and the shooting in Wisconsin at the Temple?? Then there is the debate about gun control in this country in every state! No one knows what or when anything will be decided in the meantime living free, doing what you want to do, going any place you desire to go is just a couple hours away by air
"I'm coming up on the rough side of the mountain" is a song my mom used to sing in church and around the house when she was cooking or thinking about how rough we had it since it was just her and me!!! By the grace of God we made it up and over the mountain!! Well when I survived this stroke I had another mountain to climb as best I could!!
Well at this point in my climb I really feel everything will be OK with God by my side!! I just got back from a trip to New Orleans with my wife and we h
Well, by now many of you members know about the deal that went down in Colorado! I'm saying we are here living with pains some of us can't walk, can't see, can't talk like we want to or get about on our own but no matter our individual conditions we have life and life goes on as it has for years!! I'm glad about life with my family because this is my fourth try at being the husband and head of household! And by golly, it's working now for fourteen years and I thank God!!
As a stroke communit
I woke up to real bad news this morning about a lone gunman taking innocent lives in a movie theater last evening at a special midnight showing of "Batman" the movie! That tells me no one knows when, where or how their final days will be in this world! Even a three month old baby was killed by this lone gunman that just so happen to be in Colorado again!
I want to think the stroke I had eight years ago may have kept me alive this long by restricting my abilities to travel as I once did yearl
I have posted this idea to follow before in a way to avoid any falls! We have to remember that one side of our brain was attacked leaving us to depend on sight and feel to make our paralysed side work the way it must for us to even walk, see and do many things we wish to do slowly!
Here it is: Always think to bend the knee not picking up the foot! That's when we stumble when we think pick up the foot. See thinking bend the knee is much easier to do and if we bend the knee I promise you the f
It is much harder on some than others because no two strokes or people are alike! Some are stronger than others and the strokes can affect everybody differently and their conditions are just very hard for them to manage I understand that very well! In my case I was never depressed because I had the stroke even though I lost my business, money galore, almost my home but through it all I survived! Then my wife had to quit her job to care for me once I got home from a 5 month stay in the hospital a
I can't think of a thing to blog about this week except on this Saturday I plan on going to visit the grave of my mom to see if the headstone is still upright! The mowers knock down many of them plus that area is sandy making those heavy stones easy to shift! The 11th of June would be her 114th birthday as she was laid to rest just before her 83rd birthday! My dad was also laid to rest in the same general area of that cemetery but in 1955! I can't remember if he had a tall headstone but I think
I'm really involved with my fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in their struggles to make a big change in life styles with artificial limbs and brain injuries! Their families are close by their sides along with their children even the small ones! Some kids were born while they were overseas so they never saw the child before! It's so hard to see a young mother trying to hold her baby with no hands!
I'm now wishing I could do more with my weak hand but I can't and wishing I could stand and walk but
As we all know this is election year state and national but I just can't understand why older citizens will not be allowed to vote without a picture ID! Many of them have never driven so no license and no kind of ID card just bills in their names! Maybe that is just another way to keep some people from voting in the elections at every level!
I don't pay property tax anymore by being a 100% disable but I still need an ID to vote! This year I may not vote at all and whatever happens Oh well! Y
I just want to thank all of you that gave your thoughts and prayers in the loss of my sister in law, my wife's brothers wife! She passed from a heart attack with no prior warnings at the age of 60! So today, I say we all live without knowing when our last day will be on this earth! TO AWAKE EACH MORNING AND SEE DAYLITE IS A BLESSING! Some went to bed last night but didn't awake this morning!
We are blessed stroke survivors in that we are still alive and survived the stroke! I see many soldie
That saying has been repeated over and over for as long as I can remember by my mother and other family members and friends alike! Well, yesterday we learned that my wife's older brother lost his wife to a heart attack. No prior problems along those lines, nothing to indicate there was even a problem at her age of about 60! It really caught us by surprise, she passed Thursday in New Orleans so we prepared to go there yesterday not knowing when the funeral services would be! Then the word came th
This is Punography, a blog of my mind on a noonday Monday and morning after a week and weekend where I was with people more severe injuries than myself and many of them had prosthetic limbs! These people has fought in wars where they were ordered to go whether they wanted to or not they had no choice in the matter!
Actually one of the troops gave it to me in stressing how the mind works in a human brain when you have no choice BUT to live as long as you can with what you got LEFT of a brain
I been reading blogs and comments on the message board so I'm just saying something and maybe reminiscing a little! In my little mind I just don't think I will get back to the person I was prior to the stroke But I am happy with what I got back already if I don't get anymore back. I will not quit working on my recovery and therapy for sure because I know darn well that helps and got me to where I am now!!
I read on here where so many survivors want to be like they were before the stroke and
Sometimes when you get up on Saturday mornings you never know what the day will bring! I went to bed hurting a bit more than normal, if there is such a thing, so I had to take my arthritis meds to make the pain ease up some! My wife was off today so she wanted to travel 50 miles to Austin Texas 50 miles away to visit the flea market. For me that meant being on my scooter while she walked to look at every site there was to be seen! They had two booths selling many kinds of live birds with the cag
Well, for many of us we can look ahead to what's next for us. Yea, Easter is gone, tax time gone, spring half gone, so we look forward to more recovery and care giving plus summer time is now just ahead of us. In some states the weather is still a bit cooler than normal but overall not so bad! Not much else to speak of around my house. I guess the big election is almost in full swing soon as the republican candidate is known and the others commit to the front runner. Can you imagine these same r
