HI I AM KEN 1950 EXCUSE CAPS. NOT SHOUTING HAVE TROUBLE REMEMBERING WHEN TO USE UPPER AND LOWER SO I US UPPER ONLY. IT HAS BEEN AWHILE SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON THE NET OR IN CHAT ROOM. AFTER MY 4 STROKES THAT WERE CAUSED BY PFO I HAD THE HOLD CLOSED AND SO FAR NO MORE STROKES. HOWEVER FROM THE FALLS I HAVE HAD 3-4 CONCUSSIONS. I ALSO HAD A BIG ONE WHEN I HYDROPLANED OFF ROAD AND ROLLED THE CAR PUTTING FENCE POST 6 IN FROM MY HEAD. MY ANGLE WAS AND HAS BEEN WITH ME. I DO NOT HAVE SERIOUS DISA
Hi everybody: Been a long time since I was around you all. The great doctors at DUKE decided that I needed to have a new battery of tests. It seems the medication they were giving me for the CORE pain was causing all kinds of reactions on me. Along with that, since DUKE is a research and teaching hospital some of the doctors have very poor patient care skills. I had to go into the hospital for ten days of detox from one med be for they could start a new one. Once I was on that new one it d
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It is nice to see spring. I have been to see my new doc. several times and the med. changes are still going forward. I am able to use my left side but it is not what it was before the strokes. Has any one ever been told or do you now about CPSP [CORE POST STROKE PAIN ]?? Well it seems I can add that to my life style. I have always had a heaviness in my arm from the shoulder down. the leg goes from heavy to numb. About this time last year I had some like electric shocks in th
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What is he talking about ?? different and the same ?? Well I think we are we have all had big changes in our lives . Some of us are younger then others some of us have caregivers some do not some have people who understand US some of us do not . We all have different limitations but we all are limited in some way. My Karen is about ready to break out and run screaming. She has every right too . Why because I just start screaming or crying so why not her. We are all
ITS ME AGAIN Some time has gone by since I have bloged so let me start by saying my wife has started a little riot here in Caswell co. N.C. We have a new animal cruelty law about starving an animal ,making it a felony vs misdemeanor. As you can guess both my wife and I are great animal lovers. Before my strokes we were animal cruelty investigator for the county. We also served and still do on our animal protection society. Though she goes to more of the meetings then I do know as I have a tend
Hi all. I am still trying to get this computer stuff figured out it was hard enough before the strokes know it is , well lets say a bit more. I am off my old meds ssri and on the new stuff snri as of today the new shrink at Duke is hoping to see if all or some of the depression and mood swing and anti social feelings are psy. related or are they due to the four areas of damage and as he said short circuiting of the brain. Sounds like i loose with ether way . but we all have to look at all of
this is my first time on a blog. it is also new for me to be on a computor. i had my first stroke in nov. of 08 then a tia in march of 09 along with a lot of stress from work and family that year was one i do not want to relive. lost my mom to colon ca had 8 weeks of gi bleed myselt not ca but part of cirulartory promblem. then dec 28 another stroke on the floor slered speck no feeling on left given clot buster med and sent to what was to be the begining of another year i would not like to live
