Sometimes, It’s All About Your Shitty Genes
First some needed history. According to the esteemed doctors who sometimes don't know crap, I was told by one of them that I had to take Avelox for an ear infection....
Collecting Data on Stroke and Other Brain Injury Survivors Can Be Simpler When One Problem is Gone
Collecting stroke data are the bane of researchers. Few people are aware of https://clinicaltrials.gov/ where someone goes in search of a clinical trial. And to collect data from the patients or families...
You Are What You Eat: 10 Top Brain Foods
Ryan Gosling, the famous actor, once said, "There's something messed up with my brain." I say, "Get over yourself, Ryan. There's something messed up with everybody's brain," (albeit some more than...
Acupuncture Cures What Ails You? “Fallacy Man” Produces Quality Points That Give You Pause
A year ago, I spent some time telling my story about acupuncture after the stroke in an ego-centric moment. Chronic pain is a bitch. Less pain now but still super annoying.(https://stroketales.blogspot.com/2018/04/acupuncture-it-isnt-for-faint-of-heart.html)....
10 Things You Should NOT Say to Somebody Who Is Depressed for Whatever Reason and What You Should Answer All the Time
The first year of my stroke in 2009, I was depressed, so much so that I was embarrassed to go outside and socialize. I thought everyone was staring at me...
Debunking the Fallacies for the 10 Most-Used Stroke Myths
Debunk. Do you know the word? Here it is in the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:Definition of debunk: to expose the sham or falseness ofThis post is for people who think that stroke is a "you'll get...
How Did “Stroke” Become Its Name?
This post is a change from the usual, which I needed, having researched and wrote about urination and constipation in my last two posts. Give this girl a break! They...
Stroke Survivors: How Allergies and Stroke Are Related
It seemed a good time to reveal the connection between allergies, or sinusitis, and stroke with allergy season right around the corner. A long, long time ago, when I was 12, I...
Constipation for Stroke and Other TBIs: Well, SOMEBODY Had to Write About It and It Might As Well Be Me
I had constipation after the stroke. It wasn't unusual for me to defecate once every 5 or 6 days. A few doctors told me that the muscles in the bowel...
Incontinence for Stroke and Other TBIs: Well, SOMEBODY Had to Write About It and It Might As Well Be Me
Once upon a time, before I had the stroke, I used to sit for long, agonizing hours at my office desk, and didn't urinate for 12 hours while drinking boatloads...