Something REALLY New to Help Stroke Survivors
I’m just taking a guess. I never met him. But Robert Thornton is probably one of those guys that you meet every so often because, as it turns out, he is a humanitarian. Sharon, his girlfriend, had a stroke on April 4, 2012, and as […]
Babies and Strokes
This is a brain. It is also the unfortunate outcome of a baby whose mother experimented with cocaine, resulting in a premature birth and a bleed in the baby’s brain. A bleed in the brain means the baby had a stroke. Hey! Wait a minute! […]
Mercury Testing Recommended Before Pregnancy
Recent testing of mercury concentrations in three national brands of canned tuna found that: “55% of all tuna examined was above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s safety level for human consumption.” And the problem appears to be getting worse. Previous studies on canned tuna, in […]
Strokes: False Facts and a Quiz
By now, so many months later, I’ve heard mostly everything that has been said about strokes, including upsetting rumors, dreadful untruths, and uplifting myths. Let’s take these issues one at a time. The comments in parentheses are mine. I’ll give you examples, too, even though […]
Patient Ratios, Health Without Health Insurance and The Tales of a Stroke Patient
This week Casey and Shayne take an emergency call from a listener named Ginger. Ginger has a—shall we say—“burning” question and some important advice for our listeners who might just be inclined to do what she did! We’re pretty sure Ginger is not the only […]
Treating COPD With Diet | Nutrition Facts | Michael Greger, M.D.
The three top killers in the United States are no longer heart disease, cancer, and stroke. Stroke just moved down to number four. Number three is now COPD, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, meaning respiratory disorders such as emphysema. We know we can prevent and even […]
What’s Wrong with Some People Who Mis-Practice Healthcare in America? Everything.
This is a post about healthcare in America and the people who mis-practice it, and not about insurance benefits or the costs of healthcare or even about recipients who qualify. I’ll leave that discussion to the political pundits and Michael Moore who know so much […]
The Fall, And I Don’t Mean the Season | The Tales of a Stroke Patient | Joyce Hoffman
The biggest problem I had was with my body not functioning like it used to. I wasn’t walking independently, and sitting on a regular chair was a challenge. But that’s what the wheelchair was for. I didn’t need to walk–yet, and the wheelchair forced me […]
ALERT: A Voyeur in the Nursing Home
I always wonder about people who do odd, compulsive things. Take voyeurism, for example. Voyeurism is French meaning “one who looks.” In popular wisdom, voyeurism occurs when somebody views or photographs or films others without their awareness. In common vernacular, voyeurism can be defined as […]