Link to us!
If you have found this site, link to it - please. We need to be found by some of the 700,000 people in the USA who have a stroke each year. They find us through links on any page. Maybe it is in Facebook, Twitter, or MySpace. Link to us from anywhere.
After the Stroke, I Went Some Places!
I went to the emergency room and the hospital! The narrative starts the night before my
stroke through the return home. Hopefully, it happens with a sense
of humor. Also, a picture of Junko is on one of the
pages.
Stroke | ER | Wed | ThursFri | Weekend | Going Home
This photo is me almost a year after after the stroke. I was celebrating that I had been with Junko for a year. It is weird, how in spite of the worst thing happening (a stroke), the best things can happen, too (Junko).
Also, readers should keep in mind that I have a "slightly humorous" and irreverent way of looking at things. Cantankerous. Maybe it is dry wit and maybe it is sarcasm. The idea is that a knowing reader might sometimes chuckle. According to my neurologist, Dr. Elahi, my kind of stroke may cause changes to the personality. I think it made me a little more pleasant to be around. Anyway, I like to laugh. that desire is in my story.
Check out Personal Stories.
Ed's Story
Want to see what Stroke Survivor Ed Jelks has to say? We have finished putting up up Ed's story. Other folks need to step forward, but for now read Ed/s and Terry's stories. Read on
Glossary
We finally finished with the glossary! How many days did it take? Honestly, I can't remember anymore because there were several steps - gathering the terms, research, writing, creating new pages, transferring the definitions, working on the links, and more. At least you can now look up the definition of a word - Glossary.
Forum
Visit the forum and join the community. Post. Please. Talk, lurk, listen, ask questions. Forum.
What is a Stroke? Quickly!
If we have damage in the linings of the blood vessels our body thinks there is a wound and wants to repair the damage. Blood platelets group together and begin to form a clot. That clot may grow or a piece of the clot might break loose and travel through the blood vessels until it reaches a place where it is too narrow to fit.
Either way, blood stops flowing to a part of the body that might
be critical. Without blood,
tissues are deprived of fuel and oxygen.
Neither can blood take waste materials away.
Cells die.
When that happens to
the heart, we call it a heart attack.