There needs to be a mandatory worldwide sensitivity training course. Particularly in this wonderful country that I live in. It’s very sad that it took years after a horrible, life-changing brain injury for the people in my life to understand… Read More ›
Stroke stuff
Straws
This blog of mine has over 450 followers and I really hope that someone who reads this has or knows someone who has decision-making powers at a restaurant/café/coffee shop, what have you. This whole push for straws to be used… Read More ›
Talking
I finally feel, after 7+ years, that I speak normally again. Well, not normally but pretty normal. Many, many people have told me since about 2 or 3 years out that I sound absolutely fine, my voice is fine. Well,… Read More ›
He gets it.
Took a few years, but he gets it now. This is my husband’s contribution of part of the article that I recently wrote for Healthline.com. To Others Caring for Someone with Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA): Have Empathy Someone drew us as cartoons… Read More ›
Listicle
An editor from the online health magazine Healthline contacted me and asked me to write a contributing article about Pseudobulbar Affect (PBA). Here it is. I’m convinced that PBA is the worst thing in the whole wide world.
Never Mind
Let me preface this story by saying that I have the best, most empathetic husband ever and I can’t believe I found him. That said, on with the story…..(I asked him if I could write about this) It’s hard for two… Read More ›
Brain Fog and Migraines
Aside from fatigue, which is a whole other dimension of disability and always deserves its own post when talked about – it is never to be combined with the hundreds of other things that I deal with. Anyway, BESIDES fatigue, as far… Read More ›
Fatigue
Years ago, I wrote a post about post-stroke fatigue, I’ve written about this subject quite a lot….Anyway, I remember Dean leaving this comment on some post, “7 years later and fatigue is still a bitch.” Well, now I’m at that point. … Read More ›
All squares are rectangles, but…..
A baseball player recently collapsed during a game and it was revealed the next day that it was due to a brain hemorrhage. My husband asked me what the difference is between a brain hemorrhage and a stroke. Well, a… Read More ›
Climate
Climate change makes a hell of a difference. That is, moving to a warmer climate. For me, personally. I’ve lived in Florida for two months and I realized yesterday that I haven’t had a migraine since about the first week… Read More ›
Signature
Buying a house in another far-off state at the same time as selling your current one is a hell-ish process and I don’t recommend it. Unless you’re like me and you’re absolutely suffocating in your current location and need to… Read More ›
St. Petersburg
I’m closing on my house in Florida tomorrow. I finally feel like for the first time in my life I’m really doing my thing, what I want and not conforming to some vision that other people came up with as… Read More ›
Sitcoms
The idea for this blog post has been rattling around in my brain for a while so I finally decided to get it out of there and write it. Apparently, having a stroke is hilarious. I’ve noticed on several TV… Read More ›
I can’t wait to move…….
Received this email yesterday, enjoy. “Hello Amy, My name is ———– and I’m the Director of Communications at —— Hospital. I saw your post on life after a stroke. It’s great to see you’re already publishing content informing… Read More ›
Filter
I have written about this many times in the past, but I’ve been corresponding with someone over e-mail that said something to me that was upsetting. Here is the blurb from the e-mail that got to me….. “Immediately after… Read More ›
