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<span style="font-size: 15px;">Is this just science fiction or the promise of real hope for persons having been affected by stroke and other causes of </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">traumatic</span><span style="font-size: 15px;"> brain injury?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 12px;">This ongoing project actually is accomplishing seemingly the impossible. Matching the movements of a robot to the mental demands of the brain. It is a beginning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 12px;">A beginning that proves that the impossible is possible. (here is a quick intro)</span></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">"In an ongoing clinical trial, a paralyzed woman was able to reach for and sip from a drink on her own – for the first time in nearly 15 years – by using her thoughts to direct a robotic arm. The trial, funded in part by the National Institutes of Health, is evaluating the safety and feasibility of an investigational device called the BrainGate neural interface system. This is a type of brain-computer interface (BCI) intended to put robotics and other assistive technology under the brain's control.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">A report published today in Nature describes how two individuals — both paralyzed by stroke — learned to use the BrainGate system to make reach-and-grasp movements with a robotic arm, as part of the BrainGate2 clinical trial. The report highlights the potential for long-term use and durability of the BrainGate system, part of which is implanted in the brain to capture the signals underlying intentional movement. It also describes the most complex functions to date that anyone has been able to perform using a BCI.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the woman, it was the first time since her stroke that she was able to sip a drink without help from a caregiver."<span style="font-size: 15px;"> </span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15px;">Watch this You Tube video to really get your mind around what this project is really all about.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">Since my stroke almost ten years ago now, one of the activities that is no longer available to me is riding a bicycle. (or a motorcycle for that matter) I suspect that this may be the case for many people who have been effected by stroke.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">Although I haven't been able to have it confirmed, it is my suspicion that the center of gravity within my body has somehow shifted. In any case, however the cause may be explained in technical terms, the effect on my balance is what I call. "walking by bouncing off the walls" </span></span><br />
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"Rehabilitation is crucial after a stroke. Yet patients don’t always do their exercises because they’re boring or difficult to do at home.</div>
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Enter University of Toronto Associate Professor <strong>Alex Mihailidis</strong> of the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the Faculty of Medicine and his intelligent, table-top robot.</div>
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"This new robot will help to advance the use of robotics in stroke rehab," said Mihailidis, “as it will provide an affordable and accessible technology that can be used in hospitals, clinics, and in the home.”</div>
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Mihailidis, of U of T’s <strong>Institute of Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering</strong> (IBBME) knows the speed and intensity by which stroke patients begin rehabilitation exercises greatly increases patients' neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to reorganize itself around damaged areas by forming new neural connections—and mobility. But rehab exercises are often neglected in a home environment, either because those exercises are repetitive and boring, or because attendants and rehab machines are needed to oversee or complete the exercises. "</div>
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New video from <b>Stroke Nation</b> shares tips on how to get paralyzed shoulders, arms and hands moving again.<br />
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Watch this <b>FREE</b> video now to learn how Rose Ann provides persons affected by stroke with helpful information on a simple inexpensive tool along with a basic therapy routine to reboot the brain and recover lost function.Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-89862891289057431582012-03-21T18:54:00.001-07:002012-03-21T19:00:48.182-07:00ALERT: - Canadian Medication Recall Advisory<br />
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"Health Canada is informing Canadians that Apotex Incorporated is conducting a voluntary recall of one lot of Apo-Ramipril 5mg Capsules used to treat hypertension (high blood pressure). The recall of Lot JR2178 was made to retail outlets across Canada.</div>
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Medication in the affected lot being recalled has been found to contain intact but empty capsules - meaning that patients taking them may not receive the dose of medication needed to treat their medical condition.</div>
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Without appropriate treatment, hypertension may lead to heart attack, stroke, kidney problems, internal bleeding and improper blood circulation. Although Apo-Ramipril is authorized for treatment of hypertension, the ingredient in this medication may also be prescribed for patients who have recently had a heart attack, or who are at high risk of heart attack or stroke."</div>
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<b>"Canadians who have purchased the affected lot of Apo-Ramipril 5mg Capsules. Affected products bear the drug identification number (DIN 02251574) and are from Lot JR2178."</b><br />
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<a href="http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/advisories-avis/_2012/2012_37-eng.php"><b>CLICK HERE</b></a> to read the entire notification from Health Canada...<br />
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A "StrokeNewz" survivor awareness announcement</div>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-8468459145906388382012-03-20T14:23:00.001-07:002012-03-23T16:41:18.662-07:00Do You Have Them...Yes? - I Know That I Do!<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px;">"Are you tripping over piles of books on the floor? Is your bookcase bulging at the seams with no room for all your new books? How much time and money are you wasting finding a book or on duplicate purchases? Are you like me, someone who loves to highlight and tag your books for future reference?"</span><br />
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Do you have them...Yes? I know that I do, and it's high time that I followed Sherry's advise and purged my book collection. We all have our favorite book (s) and we all fear change. In one of my recent "basic computer" classes I asked "What are ten things that are going away because of advances in technology?" One of the answers of course was hard copy books. One lady gasped "I could NEVER throw out my books. I will have them till I die." I couldn't help myself in that I added. "And then your kids will throw them out" A look of horror came over her face when that image burned it's way across her brain because she KNEW that what I had said is exactly what would happen.<br />
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Sherry Borsheim of International Association of Business Organization has laid out a plan that anyone can follow to make this change. If we follow Sherry's advise we can save money and free up valuable space at the same time. Awesome!!!<br />
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If you are really not ready to make the Kindle $100.00 (circa) commitment. Amazon features a FREE app for your laptop or other device called Kindle PC. Check it out.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bizorganizing.com/2012/03/reclaim-shelf-space/"><b>Click Here</b></a> to read the entire article <br />
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<a href="http://www.bizorganizing.com/2012/03/reclaim-shelf-space/"><b>Click Here</b></a> to read the entire article <b><br /></b><br />
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<b>Sherry Borsheim, </b> PresidentGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-42463744081056659102012-03-20T05:05:00.000-07:002012-03-20T05:06:52.628-07:00So... What IS "Project Based Stroke Recovery"?<span style="background-color: #eef4ff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px;">"Different people have different interests. If you didn’t play basketball or the piano before stroke, it isn’t likely that you want to take up wheelchair basketball or learn to play the piano after your stroke. We really need to think about Different Strokes for Different Folks — or at least different activities that are aligned with your interests. So what are your interests and how do you find activities that fit your interest?"</span><br />
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Feeding an interest has proven to be one of the most effective ways of getting our lives back after having been affected by a stroke. The interests that John talks about are from people in the Edmonton, Canada community but the principal can also be applied to any community. Even yours! Just look around with an eye to your interest or passion. Find a group that shares your interest and join in. Personally I have found a writers group, an arts group and a community school group. The term that I like to apply to this type of recovery is "Project Based Stroke Recovery" and I am becoming more passionate about it every day. I give credit to Dr. Nancy Mayo a Montreal, Canada based researcher for introducing me to this recovery method. Thanks John and Nancy for sharing!<br />
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<a href="http://www.stroke-survivors.org/2012/03/finding-something-interesting-to-do.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+StrokeSurvivorsTattler+%28Stroke+Survivors+Tattler%29"><b>Click Here</b></a> to read John's article.<br />
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credit: the<a href="http://www.stroke-survivors.org/"><b> "Stroke Survivor's Tattler" </b></a><br />
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To learn even more, refer to these publications by Dr. Mayo<br />
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<a href="http://www.lifeafterstroke.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/GettingOn1-EN.pdf"><b>Getting on With the Rest of Your Life After Stroke</b></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.lifeafterstroke.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/GettingOn2-EN.pdf"><b>Getting on With the Rest of Your Life After Stroke 2nd Edition</b></a>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-29420024392147761082012-03-17T20:12:00.000-07:002012-03-17T20:15:40.528-07:00Can Art Therapy Heal The Mind and Body After Stroke?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">"<b>It</b> elevates the soul, but an appetite for the arts may also do the body good.</span><span id="more-55615" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;"> A new study found that stroke survivors who enjoyed music, painting and theater had better recovery than patients who did not."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; text-align: left;">"It" referred to in the above quote is "ART".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">Recent studies are revealing the fact that persons affected by stroke that have an interest in the arts find that recovery is improved. Health care professionals who have only turned to art therapy after not seeing progress with the traditional therapies are being challenged given the results of this same study.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;">This concept is further explained in the "Healthland Time" article titled "How an Appreciation for the Arts May Boost Stroke Recovery" by </span></span></span><span class="author vcard" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><a class="url fn n" href="http://healthland.time.com/author/asifferlin/" style="background-attachment: initial; 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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;">So says ScienceDaily in it's introductory paragraph of an article that reveals results of studies that seem to conclude that eating citrus may lower women's stroke risk.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><b>ScienceDaily (Feb. 23, 2012)</b></span>Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-52449469136937716612012-03-16T15:28:00.000-07:002012-03-19T17:52:03.250-07:00400 Year Old Thinking A Roadblock To Stroke Recovery?<br />
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Yet stroke recovery is one of the most under-funded, under-supported, under-treated, under-researched conditions a person can face.</div>
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Limited insurance coverage for treatment and the belief that there is a one year limit on recovery prevent many stroke affected people from realizing their maximum functional potential.</div>
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That is why Stroke Nation has come to exist."</div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">Are 400 year old medical beliefs creating a nightmare </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">scenario</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> for the persons who have been affected by stroke community? According to some experts like Dr. Norman Doidge, author of the popular book, "The Brain That Changes Itself", the thinking and training of health care professionals in the health care and insurance industries have somehow gotten stuck in the long forgotten past. People who have sustained brain injury due to accident or stroke and their families are routinely told there is only a small window of time through which recovery is possible. That window is </span><span style="line-height: 23px;">referred</span><span style="line-height: 24px;"> to as one year to eighteen months at most.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">Hundreds of thousands of persons affected by stroke are left to fend for themselves, facing anything from long term care in a care home to finding the knowledge and courage to continue recovery on their own.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">Because of the more recent research as reviewed in Dr. Doidge's book on the topic of </span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;">neuroplasticity</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;"> and the efforts of visionary thinking in stroke recovery treatment, a new project has been born.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b>Stroke Nation</b> is a project from the mind of West Coast </span><span style="line-height: 22px;">physio therapist (Rose Ann) and her assistant (Alex). Their goal is to prove that recovery is possible long after that so called window has closed.</span><span style="line-height: 23px;"> The project has barely begun but already results are far greater than could have been expected given the gloomy picture still painted by health care professionals in hospitals everywhere.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">The fact that 850,000 strokes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">occur in North America every year makes this project key to the long term treatment received by persons affected by stroke and their success in being able to return to a life of reasonable </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">independence</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://www.strokenation.org/"><b>Click Here</b></a> to visit Stroke Nation's web page and learn more about Rose Ann and Alex's project and how <u><b>YOU</b></u> can help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eef4ff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">"My name is Debbie Jackman... and I am a stroke survivor... three time stroke survivor to be exact. My last stroke being October, 2010. There is much I could share with you about my journey to where I am today... but we all know time is valuable and you want to turn the page of this wonderful and informative newsletter." </span><b style="background-color: #eef4ff; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;"> Debbie Jackman</b><br />
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Debbie's story is just one of hundreds and thousands of stroke stories. In North America alone there are over 850,000 strokes that occur each year. It is the third leading cause of death and the number one cause of long term disability. Stroke can strike out of the blue.<b> Are you ready?</b><br />
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<b><a href="http://www.stroke-survivors.org/2012/03/srae-newsletter-march-2012-my-story.html">Click Here</a></b> to read more of Debbie's story and learn more about John Anderson's "Stroke Survivors Tattler" blog and the Stroke Recovery Association of Edmonton's "Stroke Recovery News" Newsletter that Debbie spoke about.<br />
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<a href="http://www.strokerecoveryedmonton.ca/">Stroke Recovery Association Of Edmonton</a> publisherGaryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-25796081799604636302012-03-14T09:37:00.001-07:002012-03-27T08:43:44.837-07:00Robotic Glove May Have A Grip On Stroke Recovery<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Innovation in robotics continues to provide hope for stroke survivors around the globe. There are over 850,000 strokes every year in North America. With stroke being the number one cause of long term disability the need for this type of innovation is huge.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120314104406.htm">Click Here</a></b> to read the entire article.<br />
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Could there be an active blueprint in stem cells that could possibly repair and restore damage caused by a stroke?<br />
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It is sad to read a story like this when there are so many locked in stroke survivors who are working hard every day to be the very best that they can be. They display a strong positive attitude wanting to live their life to the full within their limited capacity. They <b>NEVER</b> give up!<br />
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/03/12/right-to-die-judge-rules-_n_1338515.html"><b>Click Here</b></a> to read the entire Huffington Post story.Garyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02583277980977271045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5902587934476637813.post-47466612222879673722012-03-13T16:11:00.000-07:002012-03-13T16:40:25.266-07:00Why Don't People Call 911 When They Suffer A Stroke?So why don't people call 911 when they suffer a stroke?... Would you?<br />
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I can recall thinking when I was experiencing my stroke. (and friends were making the call for me) "The're calling 911 FOR ME!" Then in my mind's ear I heard my inner voice again. "Shut up, you fool! You are having a stroke and you NEED 911."<br />
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It is strange how even as it is happening to us we have a tough time possessing the fact in our own mind.<br />
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<b><a href="http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/Strokes/31631">Click Through</a></b> to read this very interesting article.<br />
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<b>"Stroke Patients Don't Call 911" </b><br />
<b>by <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today</span></b><br />
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