Category: Bewilderment

OK. You like alcoholic drinks. But after a stroke or traumatic brain injury (TBI), you most likely will do yourself harm. What counts as “bad”? Stroke: Alcohol can interrupt blood flow...

I don't get the way people invite trouble. Take stroke, for example.  You don't want to have a stroke if there's anything you can do to avoid it. I had...

So many people have muscle twitching, and it's often misidentified as a muscle spasm. Both are involuntary contractions of a muscle, but muscle spasms and muscle twitching aren't the same...

I know about blurting things out before I had a chance to think. At five-years-old, I was already in trouble. It was the middle of the 1950s and my mother...

[This post, one of my favorites, was published at the height of the COVID pandemic. But I found it reprint-worthy.] ----- I found out from the Emergency Room doc--after I...

When I had my hemorrhagic stroke in 2009, my boys knew I had a zest for life from the way I lived it up to that point. I didn't have...

I found out from the Emergency Room doc--after I had fallen 3 times in 2 days from the lack of power in my stroke-disabled, weak leg--that I tested positive for...