All my successes in the almost eight years since that horrid day were just actions I took to make the world more aware of strokes. But the successes are insignificant...
George Gallup is a name everybody should know. He started the Gallup Poll, initially named the American Institute of Public Opinion, in 1935. He was famous, a year later, for...
The sale of turtles less than 4 inches has been banned in the United States since 1975 because turtles pose a high risk of spreading salmonellosis, especially to children. In...
I didn't know what was happening, but I knew I wasn't all right. I was laughing when somebody was in distress and crying when there was no need.An example, one...
Traumatic brain injury, otherwise known as TBI, is an acute event in which the person is normal one moment, and the next moment life has abruptly changed. This is Daniel...
I had a hemorrhagic stroke--messy bleeding in the brain. Allow me to precede this post by saying that I never had an alcohol problem. (I had other problems but not...
The cable guy called first and then he showed up around 1 in the afternoon on Labor Day because the channels weren't appearing. I was reading David Foster Wallace's Infinite...
You probably don't know why June 16, 2013, is a famous date in world of stroke survivors unless, of course, it's the date of your birthday or an anniversary, your...
An excerpt from my book, "The Tales of a Stroke Patient"....The plug which led to recharging the battery was still in its socket. Using the patience I was born with,...