[PDF] Stroke Diary eBook

Author : Olajide Williams, MD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0199752761

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A woman recounts the horror of waking up paralyzed, unable to call for help. A man has a mini-stroke and refuses to listen to his doctor, only to suffer a disabling stroke soon after. A physician recalls watching a tiny baby in the throws of a stroke, convulsing violently. A survivor rejoices after finally crossing the street before the pedestrian lights change back. Blending such highly personal and moving stories with crystal clear medical commentary based on first-hand clinical experience, Dr. Olajide Williams demystifies this potentially devastating illness and provides a roadmap to recovery. Indeed, Dr. Williams shows that the majority of strokes are not only preventable, but also treatable. Through compelling stories of patients, survivors and caregivers, woven together by easy-to-understand medical explanations, Dr. Williams provides practical tips on preventing strokes with specific lifestyle prescriptions, on recognizing the different forms of strokes, on managing symptoms after stroke, and on overcoming the psychological burden of stroke. He also reviews the new clot-busting treatments, which have dramatically improved the recovery rate of stroke victims. Combining cutting-edge medicine with the gripping stories of patients, survivors, family members, and physicians, Stroke Diaries strikes a blow against the current public health crisis in stroke.

Author : Jr. P. hD. Broussard
Publisher :
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 23,16 MB
Release : 2016-09-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780997965322

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The author had a stroke with brain injury and disability from aphasia. His rehabilitation included a diary about having lost his language and aphasia therapy leading to his recovery. Neuroscience and Neurology are studying the nervous system and the enriched environment that provides improvement.

Author : Thomas G. Broussard
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,81 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Aphasic persons
ISBN : 9781502978042

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Stroke and brain injury resulting in aphasia and losing the ability to read, write, or speak is a devastating disability. This primer provides an array of tools for aphasia therapy and rehabilitation that spur learning for recovery, and to regain those lost skills. On September 26, 2011, Tom Broussard, a recent Ph.D. with an emphasis on helping people with disabilities get work, experienced his stroke in the area of the brain called Broca's area rending him unable to read, write or speak well. Aphasia, the impairment of language, was the result. He kept a diary using drawings, charts and graphic representations including using mostly real words that didn't make much sense. Losing his language meant losing his grammar and syntax. Writing his diary, recording his voice and studying his brain for 9 months, he experienced what the scientists call, "spontaneous recovery." In addition to his own voice, he developed another "voice" (or two) that helped him understand the condition of his thinking and how thinking works. Broussard has been speaking to hospitals, clinics and a wide audience of people with strokes, caregivers, students, and medical professionals with an interest in how our brain works and how recovery is accomplished by someone who saw his brain from the inside. It is a valuable resource with an inspiring story that touches everyone connected to strokes and aphasia.

Author : Olajide Williams, MD
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 37,79 MB
Release : 2010-04-23
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 019974548X

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A woman recounts the horror of waking up paralyzed, unable to call for help. A man has a mini-stroke and refuses to listen to his doctor, only to suffer a disabling stroke soon after. A physician recalls watching a tiny baby in the throws of a stroke, convulsing violently. A survivor rejoices after finally crossing the street before the pedestrian lights change back. Blending such highly personal and moving stories with crystal clear medical commentary based on first-hand clinical experience, Dr. Olajide Williams demystifies this potentially devastating illness and provides a roadmap to recovery. Indeed, Dr. Williams shows that the majority of strokes are not only preventable, but also treatable. Through compelling stories of patients, survivors and caregivers, woven together by easy-to-understand medical explanations, Dr. Williams provides practical tips on preventing strokes with specific lifestyle prescriptions, on recognizing the different forms of strokes, on managing symptoms after stroke, and on overcoming the psychological burden of stroke. He also reviews the new clot-busting treatments, which have dramatically improved the recovery rate of stroke victims. Combining cutting-edge medicine with the gripping stories of patients, survivors, family members, and physicians, Stroke Diaries strikes a blow against the current public health crisis in stroke.

Author : Thomas G. Broussard
Publisher :
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 22,4 MB
Release : 2018-01-23
Category : Aphasic persons
ISBN : 9780997965346

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The author shares his recovery and therapy experiences following a stroke in this third book in the Stroke Diary trilogy. It also explains how intensive practice is the prescription for improvement of aphasia recovery.

Author : Kip Burkman
Publisher :
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2010-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1886039984

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...you are probably frightened, worried, and consumed with questions. What can you expect from recovery? How much rehabilitation will be needed?

Author : Jennifer Ortiz
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 2017-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781942557845

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The inspirational story of a little boy's life after suffering a massive stroke. The diary entries written by his loving mother throughout his journey show a personal look into the life of caring for a critically ill child.

Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,42 MB
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307363694

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1998. "To all concerned, this book is meant to send a ghostly signal across the dark universe of ill-health that says 'you are not alone.'" - Robert McCrum On July 29, 1995, Robert McCrum, 42, married only ten weeks, suffered a paralyzing stroke. Overnight, his life shifted irrevocably. But this admired novelist and former editorial director of the London publishing house Faber and Faber decided to chronicle what became a remarkable journey "into that mysterious, unexplored territory, the neighbourly world of the unwell," as well as a deeply moving love story.

Author : Jonathan Alexander
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 35,48 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0823297683

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An archive of personal trauma that addresses how a culture still toxic to queer people can reshape a body In the summer of 2019, Jonathan Alexander had a minor stroke, what his doctors called an “eye stroke.” A small bit of cholesterol came loose from a vein in his neck and instead of shooting into his brain and causing damage, it lodged itself in a branch artery of his retina, resulting in a permanent blindspot in his right eye. In Stroke Book, Alexander recounts both the immediate aftermath of his health crisis, which marked deeper health concerns, as well as his experiences as a queer person subject to medical intervention. A pressure that the queer ill contend with is feeling at fault for their condition, of having somehow chosen illness as punishment for their queerness, however subconsciously. Queer people often experience psychic and somatic pressures that not only decrease their overall quality of life but can also lead to shorter lifespans. Emerging out of a medical emergency and a need to think and feel that crisis through the author’s sexuality, changing sense of dis/ability, and experience of time, Stroke Book invites readers on a personal journey of facing a health crisis while trying to understand how one’s sexual identity affects and is affected by that crisis. Pieceing and stitching together his experience in a queered diary form, Alexander’s lyrical prose documents his ongoing, unfolding experience in the aftermath of the stroke. Through the fracturing of his text, which almost mirrors his fractured sight post-stroke, the author grapples with his shifted experience of time, weaving in and out, while he tracks the aftermath of what he comes to call his “incident” and meditates on how a history of homophobic encounters can manifest in embodied forms. The book situates itself within a larger queer tradition of writing—first, about the body, then about the body unbecoming, and then, yet further, about the body ongoing, even in the shadow of death. Stroke Book also documents the complexities of critique and imagination while holding open a space for dreaming, pleasure, intimacy, and the unexpected.