Stroke Facts for Patients?
Stroke Facts for Patients is a blog/website run by Yo Coleman, a survivor of four strokes. It’s aimed at those who are interested in stroke facts or are survivors, friends of survivors and caregivers looking for info, answers, tips and ideas.
You will find:
1. A repository of useful articles on various recovery tricks and the latest news in stroke therapy. The articles are aimed to help you with all aspects of having a stroke with tips, ideas and encouragement on recovering.
2. Fresh content is added regularly and will include interviews with experts in the field, how-to instructional articles and audio/video dealing with physical therapy exercises and games you can do at home, as well as a variety of other stroke related topics.
3. Links and suggested reading to help you in your recovery.
4. A monthly, though not consistent, downloadable PDF newsletter called, “Brain Fart Monthly: Going where no stroke has gone before.” The newsletter will include links and mini’s of the latest stroke info that evolved during the month, cartoons, jokes, short stories and any other diversion she can think of to help survivors forget for at least 10 seconds (give or take a few) they’ve had a stroke.
Who is Yo Coleman?
Most of strokefactsforpatients.com’s content is produced by Yo (Yochana) Coleman, a rapidly aging 47 year old semi-geezer and survivor of four strokes. Yo has created and managed several different websites since 2002, mostly dealing with her cartoons, games she created and totally ridiculous videos.
Yo operates her sites from a corner office in a small cottage on a farm somewhere in Ohio in the foothills of the Appalachians - and has a fondness for prepositional phrases. She can also be found hiding on the back of the hill in a tepee with 3 of her 7 cats and a FLY PEN writing ridiculous stuff and creating videos that make no sense.
For strokefactsforpatients.com, she draws on her experience with four strokes, a zillion TIA’s (give or take a few), dystonia and an enjoyment for the absurd to help others learn how to turn their irritating experience with strokes into something laughable or at least endurable.
As you can see from previous entries, most have been totally serious. That won’t last long. She can only endure it so much and then she cracks. So, after Rosh Hashanah the absurd will become a regular on the site.
Over the past 7 years, Yo has been seen:
1. Drag racing cars with her wheelchair on the streets of Brooklyn, NY.
2. Set what she believes to be the Carroll St. downhill speed record for wheelchairs - without breaking her neck. (Brooklyn)
3. Snowbank jumping with her walker. Not a pretty sight.
4. Chasing little kids on their bikes with her spitfire red scooter - and losing.
5. Stabbing herself to death with knitting needles while practising muscle control.
6. Taking advantage of an excellent opportunity when partially paralyzed on the left side of her body, by shoving a pillow under her shirt and pretending to be a combo of the hunchback of Notre Dame and Igor. She also did impres
sions of zombies.
7. Being ripped to shreds by her 7 cats.
