stroke facts for patients

Let’s say you’re bored out of your skull with the side-effects of your stroke and you just need a challenge.  Why not work on your speech.
It’s been seven years since my last series of strokes and I still have a hard time with my s’s when I’m tired.  So how about practising a sentence I [...]

I fell a lot after my strokes.  Partly due to the stroke and partly due to the stroke giving me dystonia (a neurological illness that causes involuntary muscle movements).
Despite the fact that falling hurts and we swear we’ll eventually break a hip, there’s no point in getting depressed over it.
Instead, turn it into a sport!  [...]

It’s your first time in public since your stroke.  Your body is still a little funny.  You look a bit like the Leaning Tower of Pisa and now and then - you still drool a little.
You round a corner of an aisle at Walmart being careful not to fall down.  A little girl about [...]

Being a stroke survivor, we get to have a second childhood!  How?  The stroke has taken away a lot of our grown up skills, like: eating without spilling food on ourselves, walking without falling down, not wetting ourselves and holding something so simple as a pen or pencil without hurting ourselves.
So, let’s take advantage of [...]

Yesterday I wrote about an article I found in Neurology Now by Oliver Sacks on music and the brain. The article covered the power of music and it’s ability to help those with a neurological illness be able to sing or dance when they otherwise couldn’t. 
I also shared my own journey in recovering from [...]