Stroke Survivor Blog

Today Steve was really hurting and experiencing lots of pain. After the doctor appt. he felt dizzy and nauseous. So he skipped lunch and went right to bed right around 1:30 and stayed there. He was making pained noises in his sleep and he looked pale. All of a sudden around 5:00 PM, his blood pressure skyrocketed to 170/100, and he felt [...]

The ankle that is so painful is causing a hindrance to Steve’s walking, and much time is spent in therapy just stretching out the tendons to relieve the pain. I will be taking him to the doctor in the morning for an MRI to see if there’s something that was overlooked. Please pray for complete healing of the [...]

About three weeks after Steve’s stroke, he started experiencing much pain in his left shoulder. This was caused by it becoming dislocated, a condition also known as shoulder subluxation. The shoulder joint is like a ball and socket held together by cartilage, muscles and tendons. Subluxation often occurs in the affected side of stroke survivors, [...]

Steve is being moved to Woodside Nursing Home on Saturday, and he needs much hope and encouragement. We don’t know how long he’ll be there. It all depends on how quickly he responds to therapy. The move is hard for all of us because the unknown is taking us out of our comfort zone. We have mixed [...]

Steve is continuing to improve day by day although he’s been suffering from many therapy pains. He is being worked really hard by his therapists who push him out of his comfort zone to do things he doesn’t think is possible. But he strains for the gains, and he’s usually successful. On Thursday they had [...]

GOOD NEWS!  This afternoon Steve turned a corner in his stroke recovery!!!! He ate really well at dinner time after hardly eating anything at lunch. One of the goals the speech therapist set for him in his stroke rehabilitation is for him to eat 50% of his food and he did that at dinner. He [...]

At 8:30 tonight Steve was still at Bellin Rehab Unit hooked up to IVs with a stronger antibiotic and saline for dehydration. Dr. Davis who specializes in infections looked at Steve and suspects cellulitis of the eyes or a staph infection that got on the inside of him, which can be deadly. They’re not absolutely sure that that’s it, so they’re [...]