Sunday, May 15, 2011
Halt the Salt?
A high-sodium diet increases blood pressure and high blood pressure is a major risk factor for stroke, heart disease, kidney disease and dementia. High sodium consumption has also been linked to osteoporosis, asthma, stomach cancer and obesity.
Fewer Strokes in Alberta
There has been a 23% decline in the age-standardized rate of emergency department and in-patient hospital visits for stroke between 2004/05 and 2008/09 in Alberta.
Read all about it in the Alberta Provincial Stroke Strategy Interim Report.
Sunday, May 01, 2011
SRAE Newsletter - May 2011
Akira Peters "I like GPS -- it gives me direction when I'm driving"
When Akira had a hemorrhagic stroke in June 2008,everyone was shocked! How could a young, lively university student have a stroke? Akira was active and fun. All though school she won awards, and now just as Akira was all set to begin her final year of a Combined Honours degree in English and History, St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan she had a stroke. The cause of her stroke was an arterial malformation which was originally diagnosed as brain syndrome Moyamoya.
When Akira had a hemorrhagic stroke in June 2008,everyone was shocked! How could a young, lively university student have a stroke? Akira was active and fun. All though school she won awards, and now just as Akira was all set to begin her final year of a Combined Honours degree in English and History, St. Thomas More College of the University of Saskatchewan she had a stroke. The cause of her stroke was an arterial malformation which was originally diagnosed as brain syndrome Moyamoya.YouTube May/2011
General Stroke
03/Mar/2012 How it feels to have a stroke
Aphasia
28/Jan/2012 Broca's aphasia - Sarah Scott - teenage stroke
Agnosia
Faceblindness
12/May/2012 Prosopagnosia
Emotions
Driving
04/Feb/2012 Driving After A Stroke in Florida
Drugs
Health
Spasticity
Moyamoya Disease
18/Feb/2012 Let me explain Moyamoya Disease
Prevention
Women
Stroke or Seizure
Rehabilitation
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Warfarin Dabigatran/Pradax — Personal Story
by Janet McTaggart
What is Atrial Fibrillation? In Atrial Fibrillation, the heart muscles in upper chambers of heart (atria) do not work correctly. The muscles are not able to force the blood out of these chambers properly. That blood that should be pumped out of the heart, but is left in the atria becomes "sluggish" or ― pools". Blood clots can form. Those blood clots can be pumped directly up to your brain, block the artery and cause a stroke. Strokes from AF are large strokes.
What is Atrial Fibrillation? In Atrial Fibrillation, the heart muscles in upper chambers of heart (atria) do not work correctly. The muscles are not able to force the blood out of these chambers properly. That blood that should be pumped out of the heart, but is left in the atria becomes "sluggish" or ― pools". Blood clots can form. Those blood clots can be pumped directly up to your brain, block the artery and cause a stroke. Strokes from AF are large strokes.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
SRAE Newsletter - April 2011
Alan Treymayne “I decided myself that I wasn’t a safe driver”
Alan was at the height of his career as an Aboriginal educator when he had a stroke. He loved his job. He was making sure that Aboriginal students succeeded in college and university. It wasn’t unusual for him to fly to Ottawa to talk directly to Jean Chretien the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs to ensure that his students received the education they needed to succeed. He was the person who started the program to ensure that Aboriginal students were able to go to medical school to become doctors,nurses and teachers. Alan was a work-a-holic because he loved his job. So when one hand stopped working, he just kept typing the report with one hand until it was completed. When he handed it to his supervisor, he said, “Alan, I think you should go to the doctor, you don’t look healthy.” “I’m just tired.” was Alan’s response. Alan’s wife knew differently. When he said he was just tired and going to bed, she called a neighbor and took him to hospital.
Alan was at the height of his career as an Aboriginal educator when he had a stroke. He loved his job. He was making sure that Aboriginal students succeeded in college and university. It wasn’t unusual for him to fly to Ottawa to talk directly to Jean Chretien the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs to ensure that his students received the education they needed to succeed. He was the person who started the program to ensure that Aboriginal students were able to go to medical school to become doctors,nurses and teachers. Alan was a work-a-holic because he loved his job. So when one hand stopped working, he just kept typing the report with one hand until it was completed. When he handed it to his supervisor, he said, “Alan, I think you should go to the doctor, you don’t look healthy.” “I’m just tired.” was Alan’s response. Alan’s wife knew differently. When he said he was just tired and going to bed, she called a neighbor and took him to hospital.Saturday, April 02, 2011
Edmonton Brain Injury Re-learning Society
The Brain Rebuilding Program serves adults brain injury survivors who have experienced a change in their cognitive functioning (thinking skills) following brain injury.
Physiotherapy many years after stroke
For many years, people were told that recovery was time limited. After a stroke, people recovered for 3 months or 6 months and then recovery stopped. There are several new studies showing that people can continue to recover many years after stroke.
Directory of Senior Services
This 250-page resource guide is FREE! It provides comprehensive information on 450 services, agencies and businesses that serve the older adults of greater Edmonton including:
Help for Aphasia
The Alberta government has created a website to allow learners to hear the stories they are trying to read.
Fresh Local Food Delivered to Your Door
The Good Food Box is a program of Live Local Alberta. The Good Food Box makes it easy for you to enjoy in-season produce, organic beef, pork or chicken and specialty foods you may not be able to find in traditional stores. You don’t have to out to the farmers market — your food box is delivered to your door in a Colman cooler.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Disabled? Free Parking at City Meters
Vehicles displaying the Provincially Issued disabled placard are permitted to park at City of Edmonton (not hospital) parking meters.
Disabled placard holders are permitted to park at on-street parking meters free of charge for the specified duration of the meter: 15 minutes at a 15 minute meter and up to 5 hours at metres that display the 5 hours signage.
All vehicles must display the disabled placard.
The Find a Ride Program
If you don’t drive, and need transportation , the Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council has a searchable database of ways to get around Edmonton.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Ad-hoc-Darts Group
Darts session occurring:Tuesday on the first week
in every month,
7:00PM
Hilltop Pub 8220 - 106 ave
We have two dart boards reserved for us, we have at more than two sets of darts available, lots of free chalk and lots of free talk. As well, playing darts is totally free; if you want to eat or drink you have to pay the bill. If you're a beginner or an expert, all is welcome.
Start the engines ...
Interested in Bowling?
Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes
Monday Afternoon Stroke Survivors Bowling at 1:00 PM.
$8.00 for 2 games and shoe rental.
101 Bonnie Doon Shopping Centre NW
Edmonton, AB T6C 4E3
Edmonton, AB T6C 4E3
SRAE Meeting
Stroke Recovery Association of Edmonton
P.O. Box 231 Main Post Office
P.O. Box 231 Main Post Office
Edmonton, Alberta T5J 2J1
Website: Stroke Recovery Association of Edmonton
- Meets monthly at Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Conference Room A (lower level) the last Monday of the month at 7:00 PM.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Admin Docs StrokeRecoveryEdmonton.ca
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
SRAE Newsletter - March 2011
Gary didn't think he would ever drive again.
A Master Corporal in the Canadian Armed Forces, Gary had just transferred back to Edmonton from Shearwater, Nova Scotia. His brother found him on the floor about 12 hours after stroke. “First, they didn’t expect me to live, and then after a year in rehab at the Glenrose and Halver Jonson, I was still unable to think clearly. They discharged me to the Edmonton Garrison and then to a nursing home. ”
A Master Corporal in the Canadian Armed Forces, Gary had just transferred back to Edmonton from Shearwater, Nova Scotia. His brother found him on the floor about 12 hours after stroke. “First, they didn’t expect me to live, and then after a year in rehab at the Glenrose and Halver Jonson, I was still unable to think clearly. They discharged me to the Edmonton Garrison and then to a nursing home. ”Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Log :---------------------------------------: StrokeRecoveryEdmonton.ca & Tattler Stroke-Survivors.org & Tattler Stroke-Survivors.blogspot.com.
March / 2011
- Delete all data before early March / 2011 Stroke-Survivors.blogspot.com
- and I install StrokerRecoveryaAssoc.blogspot.com
- Start with the first article "Gary's New Truck".
- Sample to SRAE using Joomla on local iMac.
- Presentation to the Board ==> no-quorum!
April / 2011
- Presentation at my condo.
- A few board members came (including Gail Pres., Randy, Gary, Alan+wife, ...).
- Board agree.
- Bought on April 22/2011:
- domain=StrokeRecoveryEdmonton.ca
- 1 year host=CloudAccess.net
- Joomla! more sophisticated and many features (and I'll have to learn):
- banners, hierachy include blogs+list+categories+..., (sub)menus,
- iFrame (e.g. calendar), permission (author, editor, ...) ....
- Use Joomla 1.5.
- Keep "Gary ..." article March (but not include the Newsletter).
- Put in "Alan ..." article April (but not include the Newsletter).
- I tried various menus ...:
- Very flexible. Easy to change.
- The section/categories -- I'll have to think a lot! -- right now they murky.
- Newsletter conflict about publish or not -- Sharon vs Gail.
- Keep on typing -- I'll stay out of "politics".
- Put the whole NewsLetter May.
- Article "Akira ..." is the first front-page.
- Include smaller article(s) given by Sharon (mostly from internet).
June / 2011
- NewsLetter June:
- Article "Jackie ..." is the first front-page.
- Ditto - Include smaller article(s) given by Sharon (mostly from internet).
- Change to Joomla! Version 1.6.
- First try v1.6 on my local iMac.
- Perfect. Goes in very easy, simple.
- Works for 3 days; minor bugs but easy fix.
- Call Cloud Access to change to v1.6 - it takes about 1 day.
- Perfect -- same minor bugs.
- Ahhhhgg - 2nd day - the front-page doubles each article i.e. it shows
- "Fraser Wins the Cup", next article is:
- "Fraser Wins the Cup"
- No obvious software bugs.
- Maybe bugs hardware??? Call Cloud Access to re-install.
- Same problem.
- Call Cloud Access to re-install old v1.5.
- Try the Board to change e-mail format (like Comp.Sc. UofA).
- They disagree -- they want Name, Title, (cloak) e-mail and that is it.
- Implement their style.
- E-mail the Members with Name, Title, (cloak) e-mail:
- Include them or not - Vote yes/no to the end of the month.
- Many members said yes.
- One member said no and take it off the list - I did.
- Six members say it is very +'ve.
- I include Board+Members Name, Title, (cloak)e-mail.
- Insert Gail article and Prochazka article.
- Board has new sub-committee to approve or not:
- I think it is silly.
- My rule is to do-nothing/write-nothing until approved/not.
October / 2011
- Sharon says: "I am resigning from the SRAE Media Committee"
- I.e. she won't write the Newsletter.
- Convert Stroke-Survivors.blogspot.com to Stroke-Survivors.org.
- Cost $10 USD / year.
- Blogspot works as well.
- Google owns bloodspot.com; they don't use ".ca"; ".org" is OK.
- sub-committee is very, very slow!! So far I received 1 article & 1 Newsletter in November.
- Met Gail & Wendy came to my house for approx 2hrs; good meeting. They asked me to do:
- Change front-page to only 3 static articles (DONE):
- Header - "We are an active community ..." - static.
- Left - "Stroke Community ..." - static.
- Right - "Our Next Monthly ..." - updated each month - semi-static.
- Change to News (DONE):
- It is "dynamic" (Joomla has only dynamic@"front-page" but I can implement with the blog).
- Deleted "International".
- Removed login/logout - absolutely nobody used it (DONE).
- Turn off an article "How to do an Author, ...".
- Change "Board & Members" back to "Board Members" (DONE).
- In the last 3 months has no e-mail activity by the non-Board people, as well, I have the old list.
- Removed "YouTube Links" (DONE):
- I started the links but I requested proper organize the articles, sub-menus, etc.
- Nobody is available to do it.
- Removed sub-menu "Statistics" (DONE):
- I like statistics but the everybody else does not - ahh well.
- But I can use "Google Analytics".
- Removed "Learn About Stroke" menu (DONE):
- Many sub-links start to break in SSAO.
- Maybe Gail or the sub-committee can talk to SSAO or repair it:
- e.g. Dale Lynch - dalelynch@yahoo.com
Saturday, January 01, 2011
Blog Statistics
Old History
Current statistic:
Current statistic:
- Pageviews in Canada = 70%, USA = 25%, various other countries < 2%. In Canada, Edmonton holds more than 90% Pageviews. Therefore, I dropped recording except Canada and the USA. The other countries I will call simply "Other Countries". If a country increase >2% then I'll add to it.
Important Stroke Web Sites
For Canada:
Centre for Stroke Recovery
Heart & Stroke Foundation
BRAINwaves
Canadian Stroke Network
For the USA:
National Stroke Association
American Stroke Association
Stroke Connection
(SSTattler: Click "Archives" to get other articles).
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Biography of Regina Price
I grew up in Edmonton when I came to Canada after my birth and 2 years in Germany. My childhood and youth was being a big sister and learning from school and others and taking part in many sports including skiing and skating, dancing, and badminton.
Then I went to University of Alberta but wasn’t happy because somehow I didn’t fit — I heard a different drummer — so I quit. After that, I married at 19 and moved to the Yukon to take care of many foster children and my own. After 12 years, I came back to Edmonton because my husband became abusive and angry with me and the 3 children.
I had to go on with a new life and so I became a journalist through Grant MacEwan College while taking care of my children. Over time, I ended up in communications at two federal governments and got married again.
Then I thought - maybe I could help women and children who were abused. I worked and took many courses through Athabasca University until I had my B.A.in psychology. Then, I decided to continue to get my Master’s degree and then to become a psychologist. I worked at two schools and helped children and parents to understand and better themselves and their lives.
On the evening of January 1, 2007, I felt sick and couldn’t hear when listening to my uncle and asked my husband to call 911. After that I couldn’t remember that January at all, some little bits of staying at the Glenrose for two months and during this time, I couldn’t speak at all, or count to 10, or understand money, or measuring things to cook.
Overtime, I realized my life is very different because I had a brain aneurysm (a kind of stroke). Then I realized, because I was a psychologist, that I needed to change things to make the rest of my life meaningful and happy. Now my life is very exciting and I look forward to every day and the things that I can learn or experience.
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| Regina & Sophie & Dougal |
I had to go on with a new life and so I became a journalist through Grant MacEwan College while taking care of my children. Over time, I ended up in communications at two federal governments and got married again.
Then I thought - maybe I could help women and children who were abused. I worked and took many courses through Athabasca University until I had my B.A.in psychology. Then, I decided to continue to get my Master’s degree and then to become a psychologist. I worked at two schools and helped children and parents to understand and better themselves and their lives.
On the evening of January 1, 2007, I felt sick and couldn’t hear when listening to my uncle and asked my husband to call 911. After that I couldn’t remember that January at all, some little bits of staying at the Glenrose for two months and during this time, I couldn’t speak at all, or count to 10, or understand money, or measuring things to cook.
Overtime, I realized my life is very different because I had a brain aneurysm (a kind of stroke). Then I realized, because I was a psychologist, that I needed to change things to make the rest of my life meaningful and happy. Now my life is very exciting and I look forward to every day and the things that I can learn or experience.
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