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Symptoms
On my stats page there was the search term “symptoms.” Now, this could mean a whole hell of a lot of things and obviously I have no idea what specifically the person who searched that wanted to know....
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Random Thoughts
When this happened to me, I could’ve been like….well what the f***? Why me? Why did this happen and why did I survive? This is bullshit. Wait, I did think that. A LOT. A lot a lot a lot. A lot....
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Lifesavers
I walk a fine line with some of the things that I say on here considering my profession. I totally get that. But I have decided that the importance of this blog wildly outweighs and trumps any...
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2 Years
WordPress just sent me a notification that today is my 2-year anniversary of starting the blog. I remember reading somewhere that the majority of personal blogs are discontinued within 2 years because...
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On My Own
One day a few years ago, I drove to work. As soon as I got to work my legs stopped working and I fell down. Something terrible had happened to my brain. I got to the emergency room within about half...
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Busy
I’m sorry I haven’t blogged in a while. I’ve been busy living a quasi-pseudo-normal life. I surely haven’t been able to say that for quite some time. For over 3 years my life has been anything but...
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Credit
In my previous life, I let people walk all over me, never expressed how I truly felt, and wallowed in anger in private. All of this anger and stress probably contributed to my stroke. Well, a few...
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Book
I really need to write a book. The author of the great Stronger After Stroke, is a Physical Therapist Assistant who has been researching nothing but strokes for I think like 20 years or something?...
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Meditation and Chanting
Growing up, my sister was the one who was very much into all this stuff, all this Eastern stuff, not me at all. Then I got a Doctorate of Physical Therapy and became a physical therapist/practitioner...
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Neuro Rehab
The company that I work for is 100% orthopedic. My boss has told me that down the road they would like me to maybe do some neuro rehab. Neurological physical therapy. This won’t happen for a few...
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Experience
The first couple of years that I was a practicing physical therapist, I was scared of everything. It’s really scary when someone that’s already in a lot of pain and coming to you for help tells you...
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Meditation
Sorry I’ve been so quiet the last couple of weeks, I’ve had 2 crappy dental procedures and a car problem. Apparently my last dentist was not so great so I had to have this super-duper cleaning...
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Children
I’ve been emailing with someone who had a stroke and has multiple kids. Now, I’m speculating here and going to write about something that I have not experienced myself and know nothing about. I have...
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Down
I don’t care who you are or where you came from, going downstairs and downhill is harder than going upstairs or uphill. This is because the muscles that control that motion are working very...
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Referred Pain
Referred pain is tricky. Referred pain means another area of the body hurts than the part of the body that is actually messed up and causing the pain. So your shoulder or fingers might be bothering...
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NDT
Neurodevelopmental treatment is a certification you can get as a physical therapist that a whole lot of people use when treating stroke patients. I don’t agree with the approach. NDT is all about...
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Meditation and Physical Therapy
A search term on my blog the other day was “meditation and stroke recovery.” So I searched this term myself on both Google and the Yahoo search engine and my blog came up on the second page of the...
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Cerebellum
My therapist told me today that NPR is doing a fascinating series of shows this week about the cerebellum. It obviously caught my attention. Here it is. I kinda always thought that the cerebellum...
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Options
I had lunch with a lady earlier this week to discuss options for her brother, a stroke survivor. We were talking for a while and she asked “so what are the options for stroke victims?” I responded...
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How to Cheer Up Stroke Victim
The title of this post was a search term on my blog today. ‘How to cheer up stroke victim.’ Ummm, I’m sure the person that wrote this is newly devastated but I’ve been dealing with this crap for...
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