My name is William Lister III, but since I was a little kid I’ve been known to friends and family as Billy. I’m a retired United States Paralympian, a Wall Street veteran, and a distinguished nonprofit executive.
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After suffering a stroke in 2021, Lourdes spent years fighting to regain not just movement, but the life she loved. Through persistence, self-advocacy, and reconnecting with the places and passions that defined her, she slowly recaptured her independence. Before my…
Being a stroke survivor is like surviving an invisible earthquake — everything looks familiar as you pick up the pieces, but nothing feels the same, you carry grief and gratitude in the same heartbeat.
I suffered a severe LAD / widow maker heart attack and cardiac arrest. I had a fifteen Ejection Fraction (EF), and could not walk more than six blocks for several weeks after being released from the hospital. My doctor did…
TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC Hello and thank you for being here. I am Tammy Barras. I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, and I am president of a plastic injection molding company, just under two years ago,...
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TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC While in Tokyo, Japan, for the second part of our honeymoon, I experienced a life-changing event on January 14, 2024. I woke up in our Hilton Hotel room feeling very strange and became uncontrollably sick. My…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC I was 51 when I woke up on the morning of April 19, 2023. While showering, I noticed a tingling in my left leg, and the left side of my face felt like I had just…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC The morning of November 9, 2016 started off fine. I was traveling for business, en route from New York to Boston to attend a dinner. But as I was driving a rental car to LaGuardia Airport,...
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TYPE OF STROKE: Hemorrhagic & AVM Determined and humorous are two terms often used to describe Mariah. Her life-changing experience on September 25, 2018, would require her to use them in a way she hadn’t planned. Mariah was at a…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC Being the Los Lagos Golf Course Tournament Coordinator ensures each day is exciting, and August 20, 2021, was no exception. As I was getting ready for a 1PM golf tournament, I picked up my cup of…
TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC One afternoon in March of 2014, Johanes was assembling a do-it-yourself piece of furniture when he realized that something just wasn’t right. He started feeling very strange. He had a massive headache and then…
TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC One night in March of 2021, Chris and Kate Wilder’s life took on a new path. As Chris got up to get something to drink, and he walked back across the living room to…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC It was Labor Day, 2020, and I reached over touching my wife’s hand to wake her. I said it was time to go to the hospital, I was having a stroke. Given the location of the…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC It was a sunny afternoon on April 10 in 2016, and I had taken a break from my acting class, and a classmate and I went to enjoy a light lunch at a local…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC Part of my April 2020 stroke story is still a blur, not to mention it occurring at the start of the COVID-19 lockdown. I do remember collapsing on the floor in my home, just…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC It was a normal Wednesday morning in December 2020. I went out for my usual morning run. About halfway through I suddenly felt the worst headache I had ever experienced. Next thing I knew,…
TYPE OF STROKE: ISCHEMIC I had a stroke and aphasia on September 26, 2011. I was an associate dean at The Heller School at Brandeis University when I fell down on Main Street, Waltham, MA. I lost my…
TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC While sitting down to watch a football game in December of 2019, my left hand unintentionally released a bottle of water twice, which was very strange, followed by a very severe headache on my…
TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC This amazing story began at the end of 2011 when Orlena, only 33 at the time and a practicing lawyer, was driving on a California freeway with her 21month old also in the car. ...
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TYPE OF STROKE: HEMORRHAGIC It was an afternoon in October, 2015 and I was at home with my son, and I didn’t feel well. I was supposed to be getting ready to attend a birthday party, but I couldn’t. My...
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