its that time again HO!HO!HO!a merry Christmas to you all just wanted to wish all of the members, a very merry Christmas to you and a very happy new year wish for you. a wish that you will get all that you want to have I hope that 2o18 will be a very good year for you , and now it is time to do all that you are able to do so that you may continue to get even better . so never give up and always strive to be the best that you can be and always know that I will be there for you cheering you on for
Well, here it is!!!! its that time already . yes its Christmas time , and time to bring in the new Year, my how times fly and here I am widhing you a very merry Christmas, and the best new year ever, I just had to blog , to let you know , that I think of you , and I wish nothing but the very best to you , I hope that you are seeing improvements since your stroke andthat you will continue to get even better so a very GMerry Christmas to all of you , and may your year be filled with happiness, and
well as you may rememberthat I have always been a very big baseball fan :Doh: and that my favorite team has always been the boston red sox :thumbs up: well I am very happy to say that the red sox has been doing a very good job of winning baseballyea!!!boston, and so as you know david Ortiz isretiring :crying: and a lot of fans is very sad to see him go :crying: so in my mind the gift for david retiring is a gift of the world series to go out with a bangjust wanted to blog to let you know that
well as you know from my galleries that I posted on stroke net on my family I have a grandson Christian , the absolute love of my life, well on Wednesday my grandson Christian is graduating from elementary and will be carrying on to high school, WOW!!!!! can you believe it?
well here it is again its summer time, time to gear up for another year of recovery, you don"t have to worry about slipping on the ice just put on your runners or dhoes and put on your walking shorts , and not only get some more recovery , but a chance to meet your new neighbour, well don"t do it for me though do it for you, because you matter , you have been given a second chance of recovery, so do all that you can to help it along if you can"t run that's oky just start walking and buld up your
just got back from phoenix Arizona, id a lot of things while there , I went for a ride on a side by side on the dessert, went to sadona , very very pretty and I went to see lots of baseball where I saw Cincinnatireds and the Cleveland Indians , and then I watch the California angels playedthe Arizona diamond back so a whole lotta games and a whole lotta fun can"t wait to do that again pictures of my big trip on face book all the best to you may your recovery be great , never give up I will be ro
well just to let you klnow that on Saturday march 15th I will be heading off to Arizona, in good year Arizona with my wife , just to watch lots of exhibition games with a trip like that it really is a dream come true , I will be staying in good year Arizona for 10 days , and watching all the game that I can get in and riding a dune buggy around the dessert taking lots of pictures just so you can see what I got to see on face book just so you know how I got to do this I had a birthday on december
well, it"s almost remembrance day, a day to remember our service man, who fight to make this land a free place to live in . a time when it is very important to give thanks , for all our brave soldiers and to all of the brave soldiers who lost there lives to give us peace thank you for now , forever I will never forget
well time to get started now that summer is finally here time to get a new goal and not just any goal oh no your goal and pick a goal just for you one that once accomplish will make you feel really good about your self butto reach your goal it does take some thought firest it has to be whay you really want to do ine that is doable just a baby steps really being a stroke surviver learning to do new things can be very hard but it is doable and it won"t get started unless you get started yourself s
I know that recovery from a stroke takes a very long time so long in fact that to measure your recovery you have to write it down however I have been notice some changes for instance the feelings that I am getting I use to be quite numb in my left side but I am notice some more sewnsitive to the touch on my left side how about you are you getting more sensitive?
WELL AS YOU KNOW IT IS FATHERS DAY TODAY TIME TO EXPRESS YOUR FONDNESS TO THE MAN WHO RAISED YOU WITH JUST A VERY HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO YOU AND TO LET YOUR FATHER KNOW HOW MUNCH YOU CARE FOR YOUR FATHER AND THE LOVE THAT YOU HOLD DEAR IN YOUR HEART AND TO LET YOU KNOW THAT TO ALL THE GREAT DAD AND THE WONDERFUL FATHERS THAT ARE MEMBERS HERE ON STROKE NET AND I KNOW THAT THERE ARE BECAUSE I AM TO SO A WORD OF THANKS AND A VERY HAPPY FATHERS DAY TO YOU AND TO ALL YOUR DAD OUT THERE THANK YOU FOR AL
well its mothers day today time to give your mother a kind thought for all that your mother has done for you and time to pay homage to the most important person in your life thank you mom for all that you have done for me and for always being there for me whatever I can do for you you certainly deserve it from me so I say a very happy mothers day to you and to all the mothers out there and not only a very big thank you to mothers on mothers day but a great big thank you for giving us hope by alw
I just wanted to blog to give all the members that ato always be very very careful out there while you are walking or even in your own home I had a friend who had a stroke and had a very bad fall and hurt himself quite bad and actually broke his hip and end up dying from his injury so please be careful at all times you are dealing with a stroke a stroke which will make you weaker and tired so tired that you may not think that anything will happen but think again I don"t want to scare you but I d
well as you know I got an opportunity to go to a casestudy I wentto simon fraser university for a stroke case study while there I was ask a series of questions I was ask to rememver in order a series of words and to repeat the words in order and the word was face saten daisy redparade then I was ask to start fom 100 and subteact by 7 till I was stop I didn't do well on this one my math is just aweful I was then ask to follw the letters and numbers in order and connect the dots example a to 1 and
on yourmark :happydance: get set :cheese1: get ready time to search for all the chocolate eggs you can find :Good-Luck: and eat that all you can eat that's right because its easter you sdeserve it :Nodding: just a little blog to let you know that on easter day I am hoping that all the members will have a very very happy easter and that you will have a really good dinner :Starvin: on a really special day :cocktail: and on easter day it is a very good day tobecause of the spring in the air that yo
this I am sure that you will see recovery if you work at it try new things and do whatever you can do to help your brain learn what you expect your body to do for you your brain has an incredible abilty to learn new things your brain is so incredible that the abilty to make new connection find a new route to help your limbs legand arm to do for you what you expect of your body , the ones thing that I am sure if you don"t work at it you are letting your brain know that you are comfortable with wh
OH BOY TIME TO GET INTO THE WARM ACTIVITY :gym: oh yeago for a walk :happydance: time to get into the swing of things :groupwave: i love spring time :tumbleweed: time to get moving :roflmao: time to do whatever you can do :Nodding: thistime we will be on a recoveryjourney :kicking: we will say yes i can :Nodding: so lets put a spring in our step :wtg: i know that you can do it :cheer: you just have to know that you can do it to :Clap-Hands: all the best to you in this spring :Cheers:
well i got the call to go to ubchospital that is where a stroke study is done we had a varios of test memory test, and puzzle test we go to have an mri i have done that twice now so i get a comparison check to see if there is any improvement ie not as dark as before and good news its not as bad with the puzzel it is like a tile which is red and white and you are giving design that you have to move the tile in order to make it look like the design then you are giving a grocery list compleate with
WELL FINALLY AFTER BEING WITHOUT BASEBALL GAME FOR WHAT SEEMS LIKE A VERY LONG TIME SPRING TRAINING HAS BEGIN :clap: HOWEVER ONLY IN FLORIDA OR MAYBE ARIZONA :tumbleweed: but definety not here in canada :badmood: no still cold and still rainingbut no snow yet!!! but now i can turn on the fireplace :crazysmile: and curl up to my telivision and watch my red sox win the world series :cheer: yes i am still a fan :whip: well i hope that you will all stay warm :Flame-On: and keep dry :wtg: and get in
well valentines is here a holiday that comes around only once to thank the lady in your life and the cargivers in your life and i don"t think that once is enough :forgive_me?: so i was thinking that all women and men who is a care givers should be given our most highly praise for a job well done to give up your daily activity just to help your loved ones who was unluky enough to have a stroke being a caregivers to your loved ones is such an unselfish act and i just wanted to let all of the careg
well i am sending you this blog to let you know that i made it? :gym: i made my goal but so can you if i can trust me so can you as you know if people know me you all know that i love to eat yes i know we all love to eat but i eat but i love to eat ALLTHE WRONG THINGSlike i love pumpkin pie, or ice cream or bacon and yes even sausage so after spending my time being very very overweight when i had a strke i weighed 180pounds but now i manage to get up to 199pounds and i had the appetite to provei
well I went to the stroke study being held at the university of britixh coumbia hospital and where I got to use a robotic arm to activate my left arm and wrist and whike hooked up it was activate to help me to bend my wrist with the help of a robotic arm and when activated I was hooked up with electric contacts which will light up my brain wher it is working to see what part of the brain is use to get the movement with your arm it was really cool and they are also develpping the robotic arm to w
OH WOW! was I ever sick I got up and when I stood up I was so weak I could hardly stand on my own and my stomach was feeling really queasy So I went to bed had a very hard time sleeping, couldn't get comfortable and as my stomach started to churn. I had to get up and go to the washroom I guess t'is the season to catch the cold.
I have been coughing and sneezing for a very long time now as sick as I was and as aweful as I feel there is a silver lining. Because I was so sick I couldn't eat mu
as we close the year of 2013 we welcome the new years of 2014, my wish for you is that it will be a year of health and filled with lkots of friends and that you will have lots of good things happen to you like meet your goalsand to always feel good about you and what you havew accomplish be good and kind to yourself don"t be hard on yourself if you makle a mistake no one is perfect learn to love the life that you have filled with lots of love this is your year so my wish if I could give it to yo
oh boy I can hadly waiitbecause on june,28th my wife booked a cruise for a cruise all the way to Alaska, so it should be warm when we go believe it ir not I have never been to Alaska we are going leaving on june,18th we are leaving on vancouvercanada going by Holland America and we are going to take a trip to jeaneau, and to ketchacan and one more city but I cant think of the name so shipa ahoy it was revealed to me by my wife I got 50 questions to guess where I was going and it had to be a a qu
