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 submarine.

Well don't we all live in our own submarine of disability beneath the waves of the sea of mankind where most everyone seems to live a "normal" life.

Sometimes our little submarine goes up and sometimes it goes down. We can just never seem to quite manage to break the surface so that we could throw open the hatch and breath deeply the fresh air of total recovery.

Thank you Steve and crew for this fine communications net. (Strokenet) It has been and continues to be the tool of choice for us sub bound survivors to communicate with and encourage each other.

Great Newsletter again this month Lyn. (thanks for all of your hard work to put it together every month)

I know that Steve has struggled within his submarine this past year. We are very happy that it is still put putin along and my what a lot of work has been accomplished over the year.

Something that has occured to me recently is storage of digital personal health records on the net and can it be done securely. With an online storage system and a hard copy on a tag on the person (possibly engraved) url (web address and password), critical data could be accessed fron anywhere. It would also serve as a backup to paper, film or magnetic media based records such as the ones destroyed during Katrina.

I guess what I am thinking is would Strokenet consider such a service for members if it proved to be of value and doable?

That is a retorical question and there is no need for an answer just food for thought.

I would like to pass on to Gunther aka G "Smurf" in Winterpeg my warmest wishes for a speedy recovery and continued good health. My best to you buddy! You will have to get Heather to get out her monkey wrench and tweek that submarine of yours a little. LOL

So that's my rant for now. (hope that will do Asha)I am going to dock my sub on the bottom for the night and hopefully it will be ready to sail (put put) a little farther tomorrow.

My very best to ALL of my stroke buddies here at Strokenet.

If you can't surface (fully recover) at least up periscope (keep a positive attitude) so that we can at least see what is going on in the real world.

Smiles

Gary