Saturdays News - How It Feels To Have A Stroke?

     

How It Feels To Have A Stroke?

Neuroanatomist, Jill Bolte Taylor, Ph.D., had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for:  One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

Jill Bolte Taylor written a great book, usual at Chapters or,  you can order at Canadian Amazon My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey.

Stroke Survivors Tattler we will show only one on Jill Bolte in YouTube of many. You can also look at Jill Bolte in TED (http://www.ted.com).



TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference in Long Beach and Palm Springs each spring, and the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh UK each summer -- TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize. Please see http://www.ted.com.

Saturday Comics - March 3rd / 2012

For Better and For Worse  by Lynn Johnston /2006-10-19

(This a serious topic of stroke but with a very nice cartoons. It is all about Grandpa Jim had a stroke and 88 further cartoon "strips" that happened to Grandpa Jim [9 of the series stroke of 88 -- every week])

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 "Mrs. Richards, I'd like a word with you, please."   

Dilbert               by Scott Adams / 2012-03-03

(Pick The Best Of The Week for your good humour)

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"One great ideas is worth more than ..."

Garfield            by Jim Davis / 2012-02-29

(Pick The Best Of The Week for your good humour)

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"Why don't you love me ... ?"

Pickles                 by Brian Crane / 2012-03-01

(Pick The Best Of The Week for your good humour)

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"You're good husband but ..."

* 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.

Saturday News Articles - March 3rd / 2012

Eclectic: Lori - Left Vs. Right

From Lori

I was talking about my right brain today with a co-worker, I am very thankful that I had a left hemisphere stroke, not that I wanted to be a stroke survivor, but that I love that I am a right brain person! Your right  brain is in charge of imagination, being random, subjective and intuitive... it totally sums me up. I have really struggled learning to re-read, write and speak, not to mention that I still can't do any type of number problems or math... but the struggles were worth to be me still, the silly, immature, artsy Lori!

Sounds crazy, but I am proud to be a right brained learner... I love art, music, building, not following directions, laughing, dancing... I may never win a noble peace prize... but I warm my family and friend's hearts and that means the world to me!

Right Brain Characteristics: 
      Here are some of the basic  ... 
Read on --> New Life After Strokes Blogspot  / Left vs. Right.

What is your experience – Grief and loss or Hope and Setting new goals?

After stroke, stroke survivors and their families are often told to be realistic about recovery.  Health professionals try to focus on keeping things realistic—a balance between giving hope and avoiding false hope.  Does being realistic mean you shouldn’t have hope or that you shouldn’t set new goals?

Hope
When people are faced with a health crisis, they often struggle between hopefulness and hopelessness (Tutton el a., 2011). After spinal cord injuries, people cycled between ‘being in despair’ or ‘being in hope’ (Lohne, 2008). However, even at the end of life and in palliative care, Dr. Wendy Duggleby found that people have hope. They focused on hope for that day (Duggleby et al. 2010).

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