After my stroke, my words were wacked. I meant to say "occupation" and it came out "Amazon."
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I got a call from a fellow stroke victim, one who had her stroke recently.
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A stroke can disrupt your reading, called alexia.
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Were any of you prescribed concentration drugs? I was on one for awhile: a "wakefulness" drug. One morning, I took my first dose.
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I wrote my name with my stroke hand!
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It is official: more and more stroke victims are younger. Here is an article from the Washington Post:
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My rehab hospital put me in a Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT) program
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I was on a national radio show recently, on TheMoth, the cool US storytelling show. To listen to my story, TheMoth has just added a podcast.
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A few years ago, I had a royal bureaucratic mess with Medicare over an expensive brace that they should have paid for
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I am on national radio this week! It's TheMoth, the cool US storytelling radio show. I tell the story of me sneaking out of a hospital after brain surgery to go to a party.
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A new study says that "better-educated people appear to be significantly more likely to recover from a moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
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