Living With Aphasia: Carrie Lewis' Story

See Getting on with the Rest of Your Life after Stroke 

and many more articles by the Canada Stoke Network

"Carrie Lewis is a remarkable woman".

This isn’t because she lives in Edmonton, Alberta, or because she’s 49 years old, or even because she has lived with aphasia in the four years since her stroke; what makes Carrie instantly likeable is her sense of humour and obvious enthusiasm for life.

“I am feeling pretty good, now,” Carrie wrote when asked to talk about herself. “I like my independence, being able to walk and drive. Make things, do things like sports, games, talk, see new things, places, people.”

Stroke in Young Women Often Misdiagnosed

By Gail Johnson, June 30, 2004

Lisa Fitterman clearly remembers the Friday night 18 years ago when she woke up on the floor and had trouble dragging herself back to bed. The journalist, who was 26 years old and covering the legislature in Victoria at the time, felt out of sorts and couldn't move the right side of her body. She figured she had some sort of weird flu. By Sunday, she realized she wouldn't be able to make it to work the next day and went to call her office--but she couldn't remember the phone number. The next day, Fitterman got in her car and attempted to drive to the hospital. She didn't have the strength to put her foot on the brake pedal; she went through a stop sign and broadsided another vehicle. When police officers showed up, they were ready to take Fitterman to the drunk tank. Nobody, especially Fitterman herself, thought she had suffered a stroke.

New Year’s Resolution to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables!

Another reason to keep that New Year’s Resolution to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables

 See also:  Total Antioxidant Capacity of Diet and Risk of Stroke                      

and: Delay of Stroke Onset by Milk Proteins in Stroke-Prone 

Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats

High consumption of antioxidant rich food seems to lower stroke risk for women with no previous stroke and women who have had a hemorrhagic stroke.

In a brand new study in the journal Stroke, women with higher total antioxidant capacity had fewer strokes.  This study measured total antioxidant capacity, which considers all antioxidants and the synergistic effects between them, not just one antioxidant like Vitamin C, Vitamin A, or Lutein found in leafy green vegetables.

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