Stroke Decision

Do you what to get better from your stroke or not? It’s a big decision to make and a loaded question.

Where do you find the strength to get better when just being awake for a few hours wears you out? All you can think about is resting. It’s depressing!

You can’t do what you could do before your stroke, you’re tired and depressed. You want a “do over” but you can’t have one.

As the days continue and you’re not getting better the mental darkness falls on ever thought in you head. You want to give up.

Are you paralysed down one entire side of your body? You’ve lost the ability to talk. Even forming words in the mouth is impossible. Not only that, you can't read! Pictures you understand but can’t really tell anyone unless you’re asked a question that only requires a nod of your head.

The picture I just painted was me. The difference between me and thousands of other stroke survivors in the same situation was I knew how to get better.

Yes I was depressed for 3 days but I snapped out of it. I formed a plan and worked my plan. It’s all about the mind. A part of your brain no longer works. Signals are going nowhere. Thoughts are not turned into actions like movement and speech.

Now you might be saying to yourself, “my therapist bends my knee but it doesn’t work”. You go through this therapy waiting for your therapist to prove what they’re doing will work for you. Prove to me this works and I’ll get better is the wrong way of looking to therapy.

Work with each movement saying in your mind, “I’m bending my knee and then I’m straitening my knee.” Think this each time with whatever exercise the therapist helps you with. You’re actually sending messages to your brain to make these movements. The brain in turn will eventually rewire past the damage to find a way to make the movements. The more you do these excerises the faster the brain will start responding.

It worked for me.

So if you decide to get better and you don’t know how and therapy isn’t working why not try the plan I used.

“I had a Stroke, didn’t like it so I got rid of it” deals in 22 chapters with each challenge and each solution.

I "willed" everything to work again and it does.




Also you can listen to an interview Jim did that reveals many of ways he got over his stroke.

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