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.
William Lister IIISeptember 15, 2026
Stories of Heart & Stroke Rehabilitation — Reimagined
Inspiration from stroke survivors, caregivers, and therapists — read their stories and be amazed.
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…
Tom LaszewskiNovember 4, 2025
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,…
Tammy BarrasSeptember 17, 2025
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…
Sofia GaddiJuly 11, 2024
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…
Greg MengisJune 10, 2024
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
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…
Mariah FisherSeptember 11, 2023
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