TYPE OF STROKE: TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC STROKE Stroke survival can be summed up in 3 words “Don’t give up” For real, that’s the heart of it. Just keep trying – Gar Moss My Stroke Story - the Challenges: First Stroke February…
Garner MossMay 26, 2026
Stories of Heart & Stroke Rehabilitation — Reimagined
Inspiration from stroke survivors, caregivers, and therapists — read their stories and be amazed.
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
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