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,…
Tom RyanDecember 1, 2023
Stories of Stroke Rehabilitation — Reimagined
Inspiration from stroke survivors, caregivers, and therapists — read their stories and be amazed.
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…
Jerry LeoMarch 9, 2023
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…
Johanes SwenbergFebruary 10, 2023
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…
Chris WilderAugust 24, 2022
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…
Tom SuitApril 19, 2022
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…
Nicole RocaMarch 11, 2022
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…
A Stroke ChampionJanuary 27, 2022
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,…
Andrew PoonDecember 3, 2021
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…
Tom BroussardOctober 25, 2021