I could probably look it up someplace but this way I will probably get more answers!!!!!!!!!

I am my parents 18th and last child and no one in the family ever suffered a stroke as they all had to work hard in the fields farming different crops each year to help our father make a living so all of us could eat and buy a few clothes to wear.... It was a bit different by the time I got to be school age so I was able to get a new bicycle and a BB gun that I had to work hard to get.....

I couldn't ride the bike to school in those days we had to walk a few miles no school buses at that time and the walk was a few miles each way from where we lived...... So 11 sisters and brothers not one of them suffered a stroke then here I come along after 22 years in the Army and retired for years running my own business (A Bowling Pro Shop} inside a bowling center I have a Stroke 12 years ago knowing nothing about strokes.....

I was blessed to learn how to shoot at an early age then I was selected to join the All Army Pistol Team and I competed for years until I retired in 1979 at Baumholder, Germany coming back to Fort Benning, GA and shot that summer on the Army pistol team for my last time..... I was a Distinguished Pistol Shot and had all my own pistols and even shot International tournaments and in the Olympics.....

All those years and no stroke then in 2004 it hit me hard and here I am 12 years later still suffering from the stroke which now I know happens to people everywhere all the time...... I came across this Stroke site in 2005 and learned so much about strokes until I'm still here.....

My condition is I am paralyzed on left side but being right handed it works out pretty good for me to be able to drive my SUV and haul my scooter everywhere I go.... I bought my vehicle in 2003, a Ford Explorer that I will keep forever until I'm gone.....

That's all my knowledge about strokes and I know it is a long road to recovery and probably never completely without having effects and showing signs you suffered a stroke at some point in your life..... :roflmao: Strokes are not new to have but anyone know how long people been having strokes??? As a youngster I remember older people in wheelchairs with missing legs or a foot or even got wounded in the military but nothing about strokes......

Any information you know or may have about the years strokes been happening to people let me know please....... I sure thought at one time I would be back on both feet walking as usual, dancing and having sex as usual, running, playing basketball like I used to do years ago now....

That is not the case I can't drive up to stores park, get out and walk inside.... The curb is there I can't step up I have to look for an incline walk way then get in the door if they are not sliding glass doors..... It's not easy going after suffering a stroke at least not for me so far...... I thank God for my scooter but when I'm alone I have to get it out myself and get the seat on it with one hand which is a bit hard to do sometimes..... I have to take the seat off for it to fit with the lift I got..... I haul my scooter inside not outside on the back of the vehicle like you see some folks do all the time....

Well I suppose this is another blog I didn't intend to write but started to wonder how many years people been having strokes since I had one myself.....