Hi all
Well today I got the final draft of the PEI Heart & Stroke newsletter for June in my email. Joan (the lady that edits the newsletter) asked me to review my experience and let her know if there are to be any last minute changes.
So that being done I emailed her back along with a couple of questions.
1) Will the newsletter be available online?
2) Where can hard copies of the newsletter be obtained?
So I will keep you posted.
One other small peice of news: I
Hi everyone
Just began reading the June issue of the Strokenet Newsletter and Lin you have done a great job as per usual. (you deserve a great deal of thanks for your continued dedication and commitment to having this great publication out on time EVERY month.
I was going to email Steve to thank him and congratulate him on Strokenet being recognised as a source of stroke support but I decided to make it a blog post instead.
Steve you were ahead of your time with this concept and y
Hi everyone
I know I know ...I have been AWOL for awhile now. Well I have been busy getting back into life so I hope you won't be too hard on me.
I wanted to share with all of you an article that was written by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of P.E.I. and posted on their website.
I was asked to share my experience as a stroke survivor with the volunteers that go door to door accepting contributions in aid of Heart and Stroke.
This was done at our local curling club.
Her
Greetings to all
Why the strange Blog Entry Title? Well It is just that that song has been playing over and over in my head for the past hour or so. The more I thought about it the more that it seemed to serve as a metaphor of our lives as stroke survivors.
I think the words go something like this. We all live in a yellow submarine. We all live in a yellow submarine.
In the town where I was born, there lived a man who's name was Green, and he lived beneath the waves, in a yellow s
Hi Everyone
I just checked my blog and sure enough there were green moldy things growing there. So I came over to tidy it up a bit.
I got an email to day that was quite interesting to me about a stroke survivor (D'arcy Mayo)in the land of Oz that has made his own site to generate some income for himself.
Here also is the content of the email. (including D'arcy's own story)
Dear Gary,
I remember quite well when D'arcy Mayo of Sidney Australia first
wrote to us. He
Hi Y'all
Thanks for the welcome. There are some familiar voices in this wilderness after all. It is great to hear from all my stroke buddies.
The entry title is "The Stroke Song" and here is a link to a stroke awareness site.
Click here to hear "The Stroke Song"
Now a word of CAUTION if you are linking to the site to provide support to the organization then DO NOT USE THIS LINK.
The reason is that giving support to another organization should NOT be done through Strokene
Hi Team...
I feel like I have been away forever..... Do you know what I mean?
When I checked my last blog post date it was early July.
And Wow the site is soooo different. (like being lost in the woods) Well I thought I had better check in but I am not sure who I am checking in with. Most of the old familiar names are no longer here and there are so many new ones.
Steve's newsletter article mentioned that we have passed the 5000 mark. And like he said it is nice to see the si
Hi Gang
I havn't blogged in a while so I thought I should give you an update on how my summer is going.
Well I started an online course on internet marketing which will run for the month of July.
My goal is really to learn how to use the many internet tools that are now available to manage the emense amount of information available on the net, create marketable information products and make them available to the massif amount of niche net surfers.
Interesting stuff. The cours
Hello!
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..... :oops:
Here is a link to a neat and addictive game. :throw:
http://www.turbonator.com/Game.html
Enjoy........ :big_grin:
Big Smiles
Gary
Hello again
I just wanted to let everyone know that the Hornby Island Eagle nest is now empty. The eagles have gone and the nest cam has been shut down.
However the people responsible for the site has set up a nest cam at a new site at Swartz Bay. That is where the ferry docks when it comes to Vancouver Island from the mainland just a bit North East of Victoria.
Mom has two fuzzy chicks and is kept very with the feeding program.
I hope you will take the time to have a look. (
Hi everyone
Thank you to those who have allowed me to add them to my Yahoo list.
I also wanted to let anyone know that may be checking in on the Hornby Island Eagles that the site is very busy. (3.3 million visitors per day and over 75 million visitors this month) Now that's busy. So the site is having a real challange to keep the feed on with that much traffic.
You may happen to visit the site at a time when the feed is down and only see a big black window on your screen.
Do
Hi all
After talking to Bonnie last night on MSN Messenger I went looking to set up Yahoo Messenger. I have been using Yahoo for some time now but never set up the messenger as I was already set up on MSN.
Well Bonnie said that I could have both set up at the same time so I decided to try it. :juggle:
Long story short, I now have MSN messenger and Yahoo Messenger set up. You can find my setup information here at strokenet if you look.
Just wanted to let you know.
Here's
Hi Everyone
Yep it's Saturday again and I guess the end of another week. However I guess it depends on when you start your week right...
So does your week start on Sunday or Monday? (maybe even one of the other days) and if so why?
Just thought I would ask (like don't beat me over the head or anything)
I was wondering as well how Steph is doing. I havn't talked to her in awhile. I had heard that she was having tia's and then the email from Steve saying that she has given up t
Hi all
Yep another one of life's milestones. My Stroke bracelets arrived in the mail today.
So now I am wearing one and making a list of others that might like one as well.
Thank you Steve for making the bracelet thingy (thingy...An American word I am told...LOL) happen.
Also thanks to everyone that helped along the way.
That's all....I just wanted to say.... THANKS!!!
Smiles
Gary
ps BTW thanks also for including us stroke survivors and caregivers that d
Hello again
Had a minute so I thought that I would post to my blog. My knee seems to be doing much better. However the weather is not doing so hot. After the beautiful sunshine and nice temps last week the weekend has been mostly rain and a bit colder today. Rain is forcast for the rest of the week. (at least till Friday)
So I will be happy to be able to get back to walking again once the rain is over.
Smiles
Gary
Hi again everyone
I just checked my blog and realized that it's been like a month since my last entry. Sooo I thought that I should at least post something to recycle back to the top again.
Been a bit of a slow time around here lately I just don't seem to have the interest to be on the computer that much. (Hay I guess that is a good thing)
Nancy is back at the office (recovering ever so slowly) so I have been backing down my office time (only two days last week)
The time chan
Da middle of March and I need a hug! Well kinda. Must be haven an off day today. We are at that crazy time of year when Spring is almost here but not quite. Snow is mostly gone and it is raining. The temp is 34F right now and daylight saving time will be kicking in around the first of the month.
SO! Why am I so blah!
I know that I havn't blogged in awhile and I needed to do that. I havn't been getting enough walking because I have been spending a pile of time in the office over the pas
Hi
Well the store is open and I ordered my bracelets today. (Very Kewl!) I am now (like Jean) waiting by my mail box eager to see them first hand.
I am also very happy that the system appears to be set now to accept Canadian orders. (so Should I assume other countries as well?)
At Steves request I was able to do some testing before the store went live. (so I hope my feedback was helpful in working out the bugs)
I hope everyone gets involved in the bracelet program. (order
Hi Sue and Kristin
I am sorry that I left you guys so abruptly last nite in chat and I wanted to tell you what happened.
When I typed "brb" it was because Frank was on MSN Messenger. (we talk there from time to time) So after we had concluded our little chat on the side I came back to chat and typed "back". Well! wouldn't you know it that was the moment when my computer chose to freeze. So I tried to reboot and was not succesfull in getting back to chat.
Since it was quite late I
Hi all :hiya:
I just thought that it was time to blog again. Been pretty busy with Nancy still in hospital I have been spending a lot of time in the office.
I guess I missed the Friday night Coffee Room chat. (I was watching the rerun of the opening of the Olympic games.)
The previous Friday I missed as well as my daughter had gotten hit by a car and was in emergency. Thankfully she only needed five stitches in her face an was released. She is doing good. (off work for a few day
Hi Bonnie
I am sorry to have left you so suddenly today when we were talking on MSN Messenger.
I have been having computer frustrations lately and the darn'd thing hung up on me and I had to reboot from scratch.
In fact it wouldn't even reboot and I had to go to safemode to run a diagnostic so I was off the net for awhile.
I think this type of thing is called "Gremlins in my Computer"....Sorry
To everyone else here at Strokenet I have not had the energy for the past few
Hello everyone
Welcome to 2010. I have two reasons for this blog post.
1. I was reading on the forum that there was a problem with posting to blogs. Something to do with the date. So, I decided to put up a post as a test.
2. I referred someone to this site today. Her name is Nancy Stretch. Nancy lives here in P.E.I. and has a sister in the Chicago area who had a stroke in July of 09. Her sister has Right side paralysis and a form of aphasia.
So if you notice Nancy and/or her
Hello everyone
Welcome to 2010. I have two reasons for this blog post.
1. I was reading on the forum that there was a problem with posting to blogs. Something to do with the date. So, I decided to put up a post as a test.
2. I referred someone to this site today. Her name is Nancy Stretch. Nancy lives here in P.E.I. and has a sister in the Chicago area who had a stroke in July of 09. Her sister has Right side paralysis and a form of aphasia.
So if you notice Nancy and/or her
Hello to everyone in blog land.
A great big thank you to everyone involved in getting the Blogs back online.
You can sure see the difference in Strokenet since we had to go to the "blue screen".
I dropped by chat tonight for the regular Monday night Survivors chat. There was only three of us there and another came in after one of the three had left.
I do understand that site maint is necessary but it dosn't make it any easier for the survivors that have a tough time with the
Hi everyone at Strokenet.
Well....it is here the very last day of the year. (2005 that is)
So... here we go round the calendar bush once again.
I can't help but think of the thousands of people that will be introduced to stroke this year.(2006)
Some will survive, some will not.
Some will become caregivers for the first time. Some will have their lives changed in ways that they could not even imagine before comming face to face with the stroke experience.
Some of the
