Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
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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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Who Is Your Stroke Hero?
Survivors, we want to hear from you! We are now accepting nominations for the Stroke Hero Awards until the end of January in the following categories: Pediatric Hero, Survivor Hero, Caregiver Hero, Support Group Heroes, and Group Heroes. Take time to
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Aphasia decoupage applies learning, one coat at a time.
Dear Friends and Colleagues, We have moved back to Brunswick, ME up from St. Augustine, FL seeing many of our kids and grandkids! This is a new article about aphasia and decoupage. Decoupage is the art of cutting and gluing paper cutouts onto various...
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Support Network’s Octoberfest of Encouragement and Friendship
Did you know that the Support Network & MyAFibExperience have about 25 conversation forums for survivors and caregivers of heart and stroke conditions? As I read through all the comments each day, I see similarities in all the conversations. Anxiety...
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Telescoping, phantom-limb, phantom-word and the process of cortical reorganization
Dear Friends and Colleagues, A “phantom-limb” is the experience of a person who has lost a limb but still has the feeling of a limb that provides the same spatial location where the intact limb used to be. The sensation of the phantom-limb...
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From the eye- Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA)
Two weeks ago I had never heard of Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA). However one night when texting with my sisters, I lost vision in my right eye. It was as if a curtain was rising and the experience lasted for a few minutes. I thought
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Inner Speech: Another Accidental Tool in Aphasia Recovery
Dear AHA/ASA Friends and Colleagues, Talking about Inner Speech--I don’t know when I started talking to myself after my stroke (9/26/11). And I don’t know when I started remembering what it was that I was talking about. I did keep my...
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People with Aphasia: Social Distancing Professionals Long Before the Virus was in Vogue
Dear AHA/ASA Friends, Here is the video https://youtu.be/b0m6b5xI2Fw and associated PDF for “People with Aphasia: Social Distancing Professionals Long Before the Virus was in Vogue, 7/28/2020” and a short summary of the article. People...
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Living with TIA
In August it will have been 1 year since my TIA. My symptoms after the attack have seemed to be all over the place, but the one that remains consistent are headaches. Nothing like when all this begin but they come on suddenly, sometimes severe,...
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