National Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – The Next Three Days
As part of National Stroke Awareness Month, I’m sharing my stroke experience. You can read about the beginning in the previous post. When I woke up in the hospital, I was paralyzed on my right side and...
View ArticleNational Stroke Awareness Month: My Stroke – the Aftermath
As part of Stroke Awareness Month, I’m sharing my stroke experience. You can read about the beginning and the first three days in previous posts. From the third day after the stroke when I could move...
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What I Learned from Laughter
What do a paralyzed woman, a hospital stretcher without rails, two nurses’ aides more worried about their jobs than their patient, and a trip across a pot-holed parking lot have in common? They’re the...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from Limits
The topic of this month’s groupwrite project at Middle Zone Musings is What I Learned from … Limits. The most significant limits I’ve faced in my life were the physical limitations that followed my...
View ArticleMay Is Stroke Awareness Month
May is Stroke Awareness Month. Entertainer Della Reese is a stroke survivor and encourages others who experience stroke. Learn more about stroke from the National Stroke Association. You will find...
View ArticleStroke Awareness Month 2011
May is Stroke Awareness Month. Stroke, also known as brain attack, is the third leading cause of death and the leading cause of long-term disability. A stroke is a medical emergency that can happen to...
View ArticleTwenty years ago today …
… I walked into the chiropractor’s office at the end of a long and busy day. My head throbbed from one of my frequent migraines, and I was hoping for relief. The chiropractor directed me to sit on a...
View ArticleMay 2012 Is Stroke Awareness Month
May is National Stroke Awareness Month. As I’ve written about before, I had a stroke 20 years ago, and I don’t want you or someone you love to go through that. To learn what stroke is, risk factors,...
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Bane or Blessing? A Thanksgiving Perspective
Not long ago, I was talking with a friend who had recently been diagnosed with a serious autoimmune disease. My friend said, “Oh, but I shouldn’t complain. You’ve been through much worse. And if you...
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May Is National Stroke Awareness Day
May is National Stroke Awareness Month. This year, the focus is on stroke in women and minorities. Did you know that stroke is more common is women than in men, African-Americans are twice as likely...
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Two Anniversaries: Roe v Wade and My Stroke
January 22 marks two significant anniversaries for me. On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court made abortion legal. Honestly, at the time, I felt the decision was wrong, but it was something far removed...
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American Stroke Month 2017
May is National Stroke Month. You can find a great deal of information by typing “stroke” into the search box in my blog to read previous articles I have written. The story of my own experience with...
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January 22 and the Sanctity of Life
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court decided that precious children made in the image of God had no value and could be killed on the whim of the mother. On January 22, 1992, I suffered a stroke that...
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A Tale of Two Strokes
Twenty-six years ago, I walked into a chiropractor’s office with a migraine headache and was carried out after suffering a stroke. The chiropractor had either twisted my neck too far and cut off the...
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Twenty-Seven Years Ago…
On January 22, 1992, I walked into a chiropractor’s office for a neck manipulation for a migraine. I was carried out after suffering a stroke, although I didn’t know it was a stroke until several...
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Fibromyalgia and Stroke Awareness Months
May is both Fibromyalgia Awareness Month and National Stroke Awareness Month. While these two conditions are different in many ways, they are alike in that both can be debilitating. And I am...
View ArticleMy Valentine Favorite
Today is Valentine’s Day, and husbands and wives, boyfriends and girlfriends are showing their love for each other in special ways. He may bring flowers or candy; she may cook an elaborate or favorite...
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