Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Metaphors Help Us Mend…and Learn
Dear AHA/ASA friends, A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things that provide the hidden similarities between them. I had used plenty of metaphors in my life (before my stroke) but I never thought of it as a “thing.”...
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Russian Dolls: The Nested Attributes of Aphasia & Recovery
Dear AHA/ASA Friends, The metaphor of a Russian (or nested) doll is a large part of our public consciousness to help understand one difficult problem or another to be solved. After my stroke and while still unable to express my thoughts (about my...
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Carotid endarterectomy decisions to make
Dear Friends, After a very recent TIA, it was suggested that I look into Carotid Artery procedures to compress or remove plaque from my right carotid which is currently 68% blocked. My left carotid has almost no plaque. There is no evidence,...
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Aphasia Recovery & Word-Finding: Neural Knitting by Any Other Name
Dear AHA Friends, It is impossible for me to describe the process of how my brain got better. It is just as difficult to try to explain how knitting works. Like many things, the process of learning is through experiencing the process itself. The process...
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Withdrawing Help Isn’t the Same as Not Helping
Dear Friends and Colleagues, “Hardening off” is the process of toughening vulnerable plants while still inside so that they can live outside successfully. The plants have to be exposed enough to feel the cold without damaging them overtly. The...
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Aphasia Recovery and The Hill We Climb ... Together!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, After my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), and as I got better, I started to describe my experience of having fallen off a cliff and climbing back up to describe what I had seen “down there.” My ability...
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Speech Therapists are the Trim Tab of Aphasia Recovery
Dear Stroke Survivors, A trim tab is a rudder within a rudder. It takes a lot to turn a big ship and requires huge rudders to change course. But they are so big that it often takes another rudder within the rudder. There's a tiny sliver at the
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Too many symptoms, too little patience
I have an tia in Sept 2020. Laying in bed then these numb band come back of skull over ear toward left eye, I watched my eye lid droop to my cheek then down toward lips into mouth once it hit the back of my throat it was over. All I could do was lay there....
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Aphasia Recovery and Language Repair: Darning the Damaged Neural Fabric from a Stroke
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Over the years since my stroke and aphasia (loss of language), I have continued to educate the public about how the brain works and repairs itself using metaphorical stories about stroke and aphasia recovery. When I
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Vertigo and Headaches post TIA
My doctor's sent me home after my TIA telling me I'd have no symptoms. Does anyone else have vertigo and headaches?
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