How to improve patient outcome and save $$$ in the process, from one who has...
Introduction: After many years of rehabilitation, and numerous counselling sessions with, not only other stroke survivors, but also, other people who have experienced a life-changing event of some...
View ArticleThoughts That Can’t Be Spoken By ALBERTO MANGUEL, posted in New York Times,...
MONDION, France — ONE early evening a week before last Christmas, I sat down at my desk to answer a letter. But just as I was about to write the first words, I felt as if they were escaping me,...
View ArticleIt’s called “Aphasia”, a response to the posting that appeared in the New...
This is in response to the article that appeared in the New York Times on March 7, 2014: Click on Article It’s called “Aphasia”. Ever the aphasia advocate, the Executive Director of National Aphasia...
View Article“Please, don’t help me!” The difference between help and support
“Please, don’t help me!” About the difference between help and support. This is an article with good information and advice from Wolfgang Wolf. By the time a patient leaves the hospital, usually he/she...
View ArticleHome Alone What happens when you live alone and have a stroke? An article by...
Home Alone What happens when you live alone and have a stroke? Vanessa Lipske found out the hard way. In many ways, what Vanessa Lipske endured in the summer of 2012 was every single person’s...
View ArticleTurning Losses into Gains, By Jeanette Davidson for StrokeNet
Initially, in the early days after my stroke, I felt like I LOST so much of myself and my capabilities. I couldn’t read, I couldn’t write, I couldn’t use the computer, cook a meal, or do laundry. Most...
View ArticleFaces of Stroke from National Stroke Association
From National Stroke Association: Faces of Stroke is a multimedia public awareness campaign that aims to show the personal side of stroke while educating about lifesaving stroke information through...
View ArticleYoung wife and mother has stroke, documents her struggle, victories and hope...
Kelley is a young wife, mother of two daughters and stroke survivor. Check out her story on YouTube.
View ArticleSpokes Fighting Strokes – Article Posted by Lynn Bronikowski on Apr 29 2016...
Nearly 11 years ago Dan Zimmerman was sipping coffee on a relaxing day just after Thanksgiving when suddenly the screaming sound of an ambulance’s siren hurt his ears as he was rushed to a hospital...
View ArticleTeresa’s Aphasia Story
Our 30 yr old daughter Teresa was not the usual aphasia patient. Rather than being the result of a stroke, her aphasia was caused by brain tumor growth, at end stage GBM brain cancer. Teresa’s voice...
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