Showing posts with label ▷ 2014 Feb 01. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ▷ 2014 Feb 01. Show all posts
Saturday, February 01, 2014
Def'n: Cartoons "For Better or For Worse"
SSTattler: FBorFW took 88 strips to tell about Grandpa Jim had a stroke...
For Better or For Worse
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The Patterson family,
the center focus of For Better or For Worse
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History and Background
Johnston's strip began in September 1979, and ended its original daily black-and-white run on August 30, 2008, with a postscript epilogue (as a full-colour Sunday strip) running the following day. Starting on September 1, 2008, the strip began re-telling its original story, using a mixture of straight re-runs and re-touched strips which featured altered dialogue. This new format, however, was dropped after less than two years and in July, 2010 the strip switched entirely to reruns.
Video: Cartoons "For Better or For Worse"
Lynn Johnston's FBorFW Podcast - "Episode 1, Season 2 - Tell us about the process..."
Uploaded on Oct 25, 2011For Better or For Worse creator, Lynn Johnston, discusses her process for making her strips through the years with Scott Clark.
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Saturday Comics
| For Better and For Worse Lynn Johnston - 2014/01/26  "Listen, when you go to war, you wear a uniform!" | Dilbert Scott Adams - 2014/01/26  "What's is the newest management jargon..." |
Peanuts Charles Schulz - 2014/01/26 
"We'll have to have a station wagon, a town car, and ..."
| Doonesbury Garry Trudeau - 2014/01/26  "All except for brutal weather, disgusting food, and ..." |
** I tried to get low or free price at the people http://www.UniversalUclick.com/ for the images for the cartoons. It was too high for Stroke Survivors Tattler i.e. we are not a regular newspaper and our budget is very low. Fortunately, you will have to do only 1-click more to see the cartoon image, it is legit and it is free using GoComics.com and Dilbert.com.
Note: Now SSTattler are running cartoons starting every previous Sunday and they are:
- For Better and For Worse -- as before,
- Dilbert -- as before,
- Peanuts -- replacing Garfield,
- Doonesbury -- replacing Betty.
Eclectic Stuff
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Definition: Eclectic(noun) a person who derives ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources.
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Because Everyone Likes a Cartoon!
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| Peter G. Levine Stronger After Stroke Blog |
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The Cartoonist He Was
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| Diane The Pink House On The Corner |
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The Power of Positive Sinking
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How We Learn to Talk
January 12 / 2014
As a practitioner of speech language pathology and a father of four wonderful children, I've had the opportunity to experience first hand what happens when children or adults learn or relearn the act of talking.
This article may dispel some myths about learning to talk, and some of the methods that are currently being used in the United States today to deal with people who are not talking or those who have lost that ability.
Many of us have experienced first hand how to speak. We grew up in a home where the language was spoken, and we learned quickly how to get what we wanted. We either said words nicely, or screamed our lungs out, or gestured to get the desired object of our desire.
I remember going to kindergarten and my mother walking with us to school for the first few days. She repeated over and over again, "look to the right, look to the left, look up, down and behind, then look again, and when it is clear to cross the street." Why was it that those words were heard in my mind each time I approached the corner of Darrow Avenue and West 8th Street?
I learned to cuss from my friend Bruce, who lived close by, and learned to smoke from my other best friend Bill Reich. I learned to speak with clarity at Pennington Prep from Mrs. Wolfe, who helped me win trophy after trophy in Declamation and Ronan contests. I learned to get major roles in plays by being under the direction of Mr. Sapir at Plainfield High School.
So what's the point? How do we learn to speak? Do we learn from notebooks, computer programs, hand-out sheets, or fill in the blank busy-work? No. Do we learn to talk by writing or spelling words? No. Do we learn to talk by problem solving sheets, or matching words to pictures? No.
We learn by finding a model, hanging out with them, and learning how they do what they do.
I'd like to thank my recently deceased mother, Josephine, for allowing me to spend time with her so that she could instill an understanding of speaking, proper grammar, and language. She was home with us during the first 5 years of our lives, constantly interacting and speaking with us.
I think those are some of the ways we learn to speak.
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Mark A. Ittleman, M.S., CCC/SLP is a speech language pathologist who consults with patients at Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital, Humble, Texas. He has practiced speech language pathology with children and adults for over 40 years and had served in schools, private practice, and rehabilitation hospitals. He is an author of The Teaching of Talking, Learn to Do Expert Speech and Language Stimulation with Children and Adults (2013) Morgan James Publishing, New York City, New York. It is written for therapists, parents, family members, loved ones, spouses and caregivers. The author believes that family members, loved ones, and care givers can help a child or adult learn to talk or speak again with specialized knowledge.
As a practitioner of speech language pathology and a father of four wonderful children, I've had the opportunity to experience first hand what happens when children or adults learn or relearn the act of talking.
This article may dispel some myths about learning to talk, and some of the methods that are currently being used in the United States today to deal with people who are not talking or those who have lost that ability.
Many of us have experienced first hand how to speak. We grew up in a home where the language was spoken, and we learned quickly how to get what we wanted. We either said words nicely, or screamed our lungs out, or gestured to get the desired object of our desire.
I remember going to kindergarten and my mother walking with us to school for the first few days. She repeated over and over again, "look to the right, look to the left, look up, down and behind, then look again, and when it is clear to cross the street." Why was it that those words were heard in my mind each time I approached the corner of Darrow Avenue and West 8th Street?
I learned to cuss from my friend Bruce, who lived close by, and learned to smoke from my other best friend Bill Reich. I learned to speak with clarity at Pennington Prep from Mrs. Wolfe, who helped me win trophy after trophy in Declamation and Ronan contests. I learned to get major roles in plays by being under the direction of Mr. Sapir at Plainfield High School.
So what's the point? How do we learn to speak? Do we learn from notebooks, computer programs, hand-out sheets, or fill in the blank busy-work? No. Do we learn to talk by writing or spelling words? No. Do we learn to talk by problem solving sheets, or matching words to pictures? No.
We learn by finding a model, hanging out with them, and learning how they do what they do.
I'd like to thank my recently deceased mother, Josephine, for allowing me to spend time with her so that she could instill an understanding of speaking, proper grammar, and language. She was home with us during the first 5 years of our lives, constantly interacting and speaking with us.
I think those are some of the ways we learn to speak.
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Mark A. Ittleman, M.S., CCC/SLP is a speech language pathologist who consults with patients at Kindred Rehabilitation Hospital, Humble, Texas. He has practiced speech language pathology with children and adults for over 40 years and had served in schools, private practice, and rehabilitation hospitals. He is an author of The Teaching of Talking, Learn to Do Expert Speech and Language Stimulation with Children and Adults (2013) Morgan James Publishing, New York City, New York. It is written for therapists, parents, family members, loved ones, spouses and caregivers. The author believes that family members, loved ones, and care givers can help a child or adult learn to talk or speak again with specialized knowledge.
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25 Life Saving Tips – Acute #Brainstem #Lockedinsyndrome & #Stroke
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| Kate Allatt A Rocky Stroke Recovery |
I flew into Belfast to visit a lovely, hospitable family last year.My arrival night was spent talking to the family about how we can try and help them INFLUENCE health professionals, to broaden their Brainstem survivors’ chances of making significant progress.
I was acting as a patient advocate.
- Understand the NHS cost centres and issues of budget management/constraints.
- Be familiar with the concept of ‘significant patient outcomes’ – What do medics consider ‘significant patient progress’? To grip? To drink? To smile? To talk? Ie. To do something functional?
- Risk of Silent aspiration RISK & foot drop. I suggest asking for a dye test to minimise the chances of chest infections from silent aspiration. Splinting should also be done every day on legs and hands for 12 hours. Regardless of what the research says. Foot drop means the patient will never walk again, even if pathways are formed anyway without the use of an FES machine.
Tra-la-la-la-la: Music Therapy Solves So Many Problems
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| Joyce Hoffman The Tales of a Stroke Patient |
When I was 12, my parents bought me a transistor radio for my birthday--no headphone output and only AM. That was good enough because I didn't know any better. I listened to broadcasts of WIBG and rock 'n roll aficianado Hy Lit before school, and the same channel again in the late afternoon after I got home until bedtime. I used to joke that the transistor radio was surgically attached to my ear. My parents, who were Tommy Dorsey fans from the 40s, couldn't understand the words the maniacs (their words, not mine) were singing. But I understood all of it.
I always loved music and that's why I loved playing the piano, by ear where I could play anything that was written. Those days are gone now because of my stroke, and with it a paralyzed arm, but I still tap my foot to the music. In therapy, for instance, when I’ll have have my eyes closed and the therapist always comes over to me in fear that something's wrong. I'll open my eyes for a brief moment and say, "I'm not having another stroke. I'm just in the zone." You'd think the therapist would get it by now. Then I close my eyes again and groove with the music. It doesn't matter what genre--soft rock, hard rock, country. I love the musicmakers. So I wasn't surprised that music therapy has evolved to accommodate conditions like stroke, schizophrenia, heart conditions, and many more.
Small Motions Make My Hand Useful
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| Rebecca Dutton Home After a Stroke |
After an electrical stimulation device called NeuroMove helped me regain movement in my hemiplegic (paralyzed) hand, I learned very small movements can make a hand functional. If you can open your hemi hand 1-2 inches, you can pick up an object with your sound hand and transfer it to your hemi hand. While the hemi hand holds objects close to the body the sound hand can do its job. For example, when washing the crotch, the sound hand needs to be free to wash the nooks and crannies. So my hemiplegic hand holds the shower hose close to my body. A little bit of hand movement means my mother and I are the only people who have washed my bottom. Preserving my dignity and feeling clean means a lot to me. 
Current hand tests begin by asking clients to pick up small objects from a table. Adding hand-to-hand transfers to hand tests would help stroke survivors see that opening and closing their hemi hand can be useful earlier than they ever thought possible.
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Julia
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| Amy Shissler My Cerebellar Stroke Recovery |
This is the letter that Julia’s husband wrote that will be sent to the CEO, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and the Dean/Vice President for medical Affairs at RIC and it’s affiliated medical school at Northwestern.
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I am writing to you as a clinical physician, a physician-administrator, and most importantly as the husband of a patient. This letter is a formal complaint against one of your physicians, Richard Harvey, MD, who behaved in a manner that was harmful to a patient, my wife Julia, and to your reputation as the leading rehabilitation hospital in the United States. His recommendations over the phone were superficial, uncaring, based on incomplete information, were psychologically damaging, and not at all what is expected of a medical director of Stroke Rehabilitation at a major center. Whether intended or not, the effect of his words were to tell my wife, “You will not get better, we can’t help you, find a way to enjoy what you still have in life, which I am sure is wonderful”.
Walkable Neighborhoods: Better Health
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| Jeff Porter Stroke of Faith |
It's well-established that walking is good for you. If you seen this blog before, chances are you've seen several blog postings about walking and other exercises as stroke prevention tools.
Sadly, not everyone have good access to places for walking. And that is not good for public health. More people walking means more people in better health. Here's a recent article about how walkable neighborhoods mean less obesity and diabetes:
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"While interventions to prevent obesity and promote healthy body weight are most often aimed at individuals, there is a growing recognition of upstream environmental factors, including the urban built environment, as potential targets for intervention," the authors write."
Diabetes and obesity are two stroke risk factors. Do you live in a walkable neighborhood? Then use it!
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Since When Is “Productive” Fun?
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| Peter G. Levine Stronger After Stroke Blog |
When it comes to stroke recovery, no clinician, no matter how skilled, can "do it for them." Recovery from stroke is dependent on repetitive and demanding practice by the owner of the damaged nervous system—the survivor. If done correctly repetitive and demanding practice drives cortical plasticity ("brain rewiring") robustly enough to be evident in increased quality of movement.
But this sort of repetitive practice is boring! Repetitive practice does not necessarily involve functional activity. For example, a clinician, seeing a deficit in the last 15 or 20° of dorsiflexion, may have the patient repetitively practice dorsiflexion, irrespective of ambulation. At least in that example the end goal, whether it's stated or not, is obvious; walking. In the upper extremity repetitive practice of single joint movements may or may not relate to any particular everyday activity. Instead repetitive practice may be used just to increase active range of motion in those joints. Because it does not involve anything functional, repetitive practice can be inherently boring. And what makes it even more boring is that stroke survivors aren't even working on anything novel; there relearning movement that they used to do perfectly well. So where's the motivation?
The motivation ends up being a conjuring. Some of this motivation may come from the minds of clinicians. OTs, PTs and speech therapists should try to make repetitive practice as interesting as possible. But some of this motivation comes from the survivor. The survivor needs the imagination enough to understand how this hard and boring work will help realize potential.
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And I Spoke Too Soon!
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| Diane The Pink House On The Corner |
Just when I thought everything was going easy-peasy with PT (see last post), the therapist in charge of "recertifications" showed up on Friday and discharged Bob! GAA! Just like that.
Of course, I was floored. And asked why. And she told me it was because the insurance did not approve his therapy and that they (the home health agency) had not been paid for any of the visits in January.
Well, this didn't seem right to me and I thought I'd gotten an approval letter in the mail. So I dug the letter up and found, oops, I didn't thoroughly read it, because it was only approval for nursing visits, not for PT. But the strange thing about the letter was the doctor's name was wrong, it was not the GI doctor's name, but the neurologist who orders PT... so I figured something is really screwed up here.
Limbo or In the Box Again
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| Jo Murphey The Murphey Saga |
I'm in limbo or in the box again. According to dictionary.com Limbo -3. an intermediate, transitional, or midway state or place.
4. a place or state of imprisonment or confinement.
I just call it "in a box." I can't go left or right, forward or backwards, up or down. It's a pretty frustrating feeling, but I've learned not to fight it and just be. Yeah, I've been here many times before. It's never an enviable or pleasant situation. But then there is a comfort to be here too.
I can here you now...she's finally reached the edge of cliff and jumped, she's positively insane, poor thing she's lost it. None of the above.
Stopped by Police at 2 AM
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| Jackie Poff Stroke Survivors Tattler |
The man replied, "I'm on my way to a lecture about alcohol abuse and the effects it has on the human body, as well as smoking, and staying out late."The officer then asked, "Really? Who's giving that lecture at this time of night?"
The man replied, "That would be my wife."
Cross Country Skiing
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| Dean Reinke Deans' Stroke Musing |
After 4.5 months of clearing trails I finally found time in my social calendar to actually try it today. 20 degrees and snowing, it was beautiful out. I have to wear my very first AFO because its the only one that fits in my ski boots and I need it to prevent rolling my ankle. I did the 3 small cleared loops, tried to get to the back loop but numerous branches across the trail prevented that. Only fell onto my knees once when trying to herringbone up a 1 foot rise. Its pathetic how slow I ski now. 2 hours worth and I don't think I raised my heart rate at all. But I did doze in my chair after coming back. Life is good.
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TEDxGenevaChange - Tjeerd Royaards - Comics in Crises
Tjeerd is a Dutch editorial cartoonist living in Amsterdam. He has worked as a cartoonist for over seven years, ever since getting a master's degree in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. His work has appeared in Dutch dailies NRC Next, De Pers and De Volkskrant, as well as German newspapers Handelsblatt and Hannoversche Allgemeine and Swiss weekly Weltwoche. In 2010, Tjeerd received a 'Citation of Excellence' in the United Nations Political Cartoon Award. Tjeerd is also Editor-in-Chief of Cartoon Movement, a global platform for high quality political cartoons and comics journalism.
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RMR: Rick and the Collingwood Collegiate Marching Band
Rick visits Collingwood, Ontario to practice with one of the largest marching bands in the province and join them for the local Santa Claus parade.
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