Your job? Read this post to someone who DID NOT have a stroke
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...
Do Muscles Have a Mind of Their Own? Indeed They Do!
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...
He Said, “I Don’t Think Your Company Is Worthy of My Time.” I Was Flabbergasted and Hurt!
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...
COVID and the Rehab Facility: Talk About a Clusterfuck!
[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...
Knock, knock! I Was At Death’s Door. And Then I Wasn’t, aka The Issue of Turning Off the Life Support Machine Too Early
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...
COVID and the Rehab Facility: Talk About a Clusterfuck
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...
Alcohol and Stroke, or Was My Grandfather Pickled and Other Stuff
My grandfather came from Austria, the home of Schnapps, which he drank at every opportune time, some a week long, of the Jewish holiday regimen. And some after Saturday services. And...
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...
Why Do Stroke Survivors Lose Friends? x
Through my involvement with stroke survivors at all levels, I heard from a lady who had to move 2000 miles away to get out of an already horrid relationship. Reason...
A Stroke Survivor and an Uber Psychopath
My friend has a huge SUV, a BMW with a running board that, as a stroke survivor, on my very best day ever, I can't enter, to travel to and...