My List of Bitchin’ Resolutions for 2020: Oh, Yeah, Oh, Yeah!
Among the mayhem of impeachment and blame and Medicare for all and abolishing student debt and climate change and the Green New Deal, and lots more including my life as...
Stroke and Gut: There’s a Connection, aka I Had a Stroke Before They Really Knew
I have a sensitive stomach, and ever since my stroke, more sensitive, which I didn't think was possible. With the holiday season upon us, I wanted to know WHY! In...
Stroke Survivors: Stay Away–Mayhem, Mishaps, and Murder on Black Friday
I usually write a post about Black Friday this time of year, the marked up and then seemingly discounted products that everyone goes searching for in the malls and stand-alone...
Warfarin: A Blood Thinner and Rat Poison Shouldn’t Be in the Same Sentence
I got a brain bleed 10 years ago and I wasn't supposed to live. I had Protein S Deficiency that gave me blood clots and didn't know it for over...
A Christian Inspires a Jew to Believe in God Once Again
I wrote this short piece for the newsletter that’s coming. But I decided to share it with all of you, my loyal readers worldwide. For a little more than 8...
Can Hypnosis Improve Me as a Stroke Survivor to the Point Where I Could Abandon My Cane? Read What the Hypnotists Told ME!
I had this idea because I'm desperate to get better faster. I'm in the same holding pattern for almost a year. Sad to say, I've plateaued. But could I get...
A Brain-Injured Guy, Who’s Also a Veteran Named Clem, Needs a Volunteer to Transcribe
Clem Suder, presently 68 years old, was just an ordinary guy and a veteran, supporting his family and working hard as a regional operations manager. Fourteen years ago, he started to...
My Meditation Journal of Headspace.com: It Helps Stroke Survivors Like Me with Anxiety, Frustration, and Possibly Even Depression
About a year ago, I started armchair yoga in which, no surprise there, I was meditating in the chair. But slowly, after 10 sessions, I quit because I couldn't do...
An “Almost Vegan” Speaks Out: Me and the Plant-Based Diet
I never liked eggs as a young child, and I stopped eating dairy and red meat last year when I was told by others that those foods were inflammatory. My Asian...
Is an Aneurysm a Type of Stroke? Is a Stroke a Type of Aneurysm? WHICH IS IT!?! aka I Hate Disorders with No Symptoms!
I used to say stroke, then aneurysm for variety, but the more I heard people talking about one or the other, I realized that I had made a mistake. So...