Category: Education

There are many reasons for anyone who has high blood pressure, none of them good. Here's the story. High blood pressure is the main risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease....

Confabulation is when people, a significant portion of Traumatic Injury Injury (TBI) survivors, have gaps in their memory and were asked to recount the details of past events. Rather than...

I have a sensitive stomach, and ever since my stroke, more sensitive, which I didn't think was possible. I wanted to know WHY! In other words, is there a connection between stroke and...

When I started to research oral care--brushing and flossing--for stroke, I found advice all over the world. But first a little background on how I was reacting to oral care when I...

If you haven't been under the proverbial rock, you have some idea of what global warming is. First, some background dummied down for the population--of which I was one. The...

I got a brain bleed 13 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...

I have a little trick ever since I went to the speech therapist back east in Pittsburgh. She said four things I should remember when I'm communicating to others. I...

I "coulda" gone to the doctor when my leg pain escalated, but I didn't want to miss a day of work. I "shoulda" gone to the doctor while the increasingly,...

I had a stroke in 2009 and I was 61. So the question I continued to ask myself, even now 13 years later as soon as I came out of...

Hypnotist and Bobbie As a stroke survivor, I once considered hypnotism as a way to walk fast again. The doctor said hypnotism doesn't cure weak, atrophic body parts. But then...