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This is my 29-year-old daughter, Kayla.  Here she is taking the extra time it takes to do her make up.  It's one of many goals we set for her to attain while she is recovering.  Her attitude is portrayed realistically here.  We have a lot of fun NOW. At the start of last February, she had an ischemic stroke.  It was in the evening and she was at her home alone, so I did not find her until noon the next day.  Because of this, she suffered extensive brain injury from lack of oxygen.  She was in a

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Let me start out by disclosing a couple things: I am in no way a medical professional/psychotherapist/stroke recovery expert. I have never been the full-time caregiver for a loved one recovering from a medical trauma. I’m just a lady who had a massive stroke and had to rely on my spouse and kids to help me while I relearned how to walk, talk, and become human again. So when I was asked to share some tips for caregivers and loved ones, I decided to give some tips from the perspective of the

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2018

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I am a Special Education Teacher and my first stroke happened in my classroom. At 37 years old and I a mother of 3 children. I dropped a bin of books and saw everything in my room doubled. My assistant came over to me right away and everything was a blur. The school nurse recognized my symptoms as stroke signs. The hospital and doctors I had could not come to find a reason for my stroke. My health steadily declined. A year later at 38 I had another stroke. My efforts to research what’s going on

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2018

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Many nights I find myself lying in bed thinking of the gift of life God restored to me and my family. I do not know how I would have stayed sane through Angie’s heart failure (12/7/12) had I not had my faith. The doctors gave us no hope for Angie to recover without a heart transplant, yet somehow I knew that without hope & without belief we get in His way! I had to believe that God had a plan for Angie that was bigger than my human belief. Now we all see that plan in action, as God uses her

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It was a Saturday afternoon, I was with my family bowling at the club. It was a normal day, I was fine, I didn’t have a headache, or anything! I was playing with my husband and playing well (could be this the problem?). I started to feel dizzy, I got up to sit and did not feel my left foot! That's weird!! Then I went to put my head down. At this moment, my body was down , almost fell, a friend helped me! That same friend saved me by calling the club ambulance. My husband was stunned without

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2018