Stroke Survivor Blog

Ten days ago around 7:30 AM Steve started to have another seizure. I was downstairs and he was still in bed. He felt it come on with the side of his tongue getting thick and his head starting to swim. He couldn’t talk, but he was able to bang his fist on the wall behind the [...]

Monday, Feb. 23, 2009 marked the one-year anniversary of Steve’s stroke. As I look back over the last year I am amazed at all that has happened. There were many successes and victories, challenges and setbacks. Frustration, hopelessness, discouragement and depression are emotions that Steve struggles with, so it is good that we look back [...]

Do you know what to do if you see someone having a seizure with convulsions and/or loss of consciousness? When my husband, Steve, had his first seizure three months ago, I didn’t know what to do. It was very scary because I didn’t know what was happening, but now I know better. Here are some [...]

There has been another new development in Steve’s health. He had another seizure yesterday morning (2/2/09). This one was milder than the first one, but he fell off a chair in the bathroom, hit his head on the wall and landed on the floor. I heard the noise from the other room and ran to see [...]

For the last several nights Steve has been coughing and wheezing so severely that he can’t sleep, and neither can I. He saw the doctor this past Friday and she prescribed an antibiotic for a chest infection, but no inhaler for the asthma-like breathing. This shortness of breath is new since the seizure. In spite [...]

Late Monday afternoon (12/8/08) Steve had, what I thought was another stroke. It was very frightening. He had been taking a nap on the couch and I walked into the kitchen to get supper dished up. After 7-8 minutes, I heard him breathing very hard all the way from the kitchen. I called to him [...]

The pain Steve had in his left leg and ankle has disappeared!!! PTL! On Sunday he kept saying his leg was numb and he couldn’t feel anything. He was concerned about this, not realizing that the only sensation he had before in that leg was pain. Yet he can still feel it when it’s touched, so it’s not completely numb, just the [...]