Stroke Survivor Blog

Preventing another stroke is a priority in Steve’s treatment. He has many risk factors that we can control and some we can’t. Read more about Risk Factors. Maintaining a healthy blood pressure is paramount, which still proves to be a struggle. It’s been averaging around 164/96, and it should be no greater than 120/80. This [...]

Last week we returned the hospital bed. Praise God that we don’t need that any more!! The wheelchair now stays in the garage and Steve uses it only outside. We don’t need the ramp to the front door any more either, but because it’s so heavy to move, we’ll just leave it there in case we get [...]

Thank you for your prayers!!! Today Steve saw the oral surgeon. We wanted the doc to check out 2 wisdom teeth to see if they needed to be pulled in addition to the one molar that had to be pulled. After we prayed about it, neither one of us had any peace about having the [...]

On Friday Steve is having oral surgery to pull an impacted tooth and possibly 2 wisdom teeth. If the wisdom teeth have roots going into the sinus cavity, they will be pulled also. Steve has severe sinus issues which complicates his sleeping with the CPAP sleep mask, so if the teeth are the cause of [...]

Many preparations have been made around the house to make it handicap accessible for Steve. A ramp was built by a friend so I can roll the wheelchair through the front door, which is wider than the other entry doors. The next big area to make ready was the stairway, so our railing was modified [...]

Steve apparently had a touch of a flu virus that was making the rounds in the nursing home. Quite a few of the other older residents got it more severely, and it proved to be deadly for one or two of them. Thank you so much for praying for him, because he was feeling much better late this [...]

Wow! What a roller coaster week this has been! Some big lows with medication complications, but even bigger highs! We think we narrowed down the dizziness to a combination of drugs that just aren’t working for Steve. He was on a Nitro-Patch since the beginning of his hospitalization, and last week the neurologist added Plavix which is [...]