Category: Education

Since I was a little girl and able to understand scary stuff, my mother said that her body "manufactured" too much cholesterol. Never mind the fatty foods she ate like...

Some of my best friends call it a "senior moment" when they forget, let's say, the name of an actor or a specific date. Some others say it's a "brain...

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...

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...

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...

Do you yo-yo with your weight after stroke? Many stroke survivors, sooner or later, are bored of being homebodies and venture out with a caregiver, or not, to find some...

Whenever I would come home from school and smell cinnamon lurking somewhere in the atmosphere, I wouldn't know exactly what my mother was baking, but with that intoxicating aroma, I...

This is a long post. So for some, they may want to read it over a day or two. Remember that recent post I wrote June 1 (https://stroketales.blogspot.com/2019/06/oxygen-getting-to-brain-cells-is.html) about Mike Sheikh and...

You don't do it for you, stroke survivors. You already had a stroke. You're thrilled for them, the loved ones who come after. But don't get too excited. Researchers have...

Michael R. Strain, the well-known economist, once said, "That we all start life helpless and completely dependent means we have much more in common than I appreciated a year ago"...