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Here is a good website to bookmark or add to favourites to
read up about Blood Pressure, Cholesterol, Diabetes,
*stroke*, and Heart Failure.
Their feature article for February 21, 2001 is:
<ACE inhibitor Rampipril okayed for preventing stroke and
heart attack.
http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/stroke/default.asp
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HREF="http://www.lifeclinic.com/focus/stroke/default.asp"
Stroke: an easy to understand guide </A
:)
whitegoose
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Mary G. found this poem on another list, and sent it to us.
I don't know who composed it, but I know a lot of us can
relate to this.
:)
whitegoose
Some say I am disabled,
But you know that isn't true.
I simply have a challenge
A little different from you.
My slight inconvenience, has taught me
Things they could not know.
Each obstacle is a victory,
Enabling me to grow.
I'm not really any different,
I cry, I laugh, I snore.
I don't want to be treated
As if I'm not a person anymore.
Out of good intentions,
People are afraid to let me try.
But sometimes I have to fall,
And sometimes I need to cry.
God gives me strength and dignity,
And the courage to be all I can be.
For He doesn't see me as disabled,
He just sees me as me.
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So then here's a hug-for you.
show me...
;)))
Thank you!
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: zooky [mailto:z00ky@...]
Verzonden: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 7:10 PM
Aan: SS
Onderwerp: * Hugz, y'all

Hi everybody,
My name is Elene, I live in the Netherlands, I'm 35 yrs, have a daughter,
Marie, 11 and a French fiance, Jean, 35 also.
I had a stroke last october. I wonder how many young people there are on
this list who had a stroke, since it's "not common".
I had the stroke in the left brainside (excuse my English, from time to time
I seem to have lost words as many of you must be able to relate to) so my
right arm and leg were totally paralyzed. The arm retrieved its functions
during my seven week's stay at the hospital and I'm working (sic) on the leg
(esp. the foot) right now. Somehow, it feels like it will all come back in
control. In the beginning, I was so afraid to sleep!
I noticed the effects of the stroke only slowly. I have been hospitalized
the first two weeks of October for a treatment for my bone marrow disease,
(aplastic anemia) and was given Tramal as a painkiller during that stay. One
of the side effects of Tramal is headaches, and I had huge headaches! Never
thought anything of it. I also was administered huge amounts of prednisone.
One of the side effects of prednisone is loss of muscle power. So i didn't
think anything again when walking began to be difficult. So, during a week,
effects began to accumulate and in the end i could not move my arm or my leg
anymore. I called the hospital which was not so easy to do because talking
was complicated. I seemed to loose the words from my mouth. I spent a week
on a bed in the living room with my fiance taking care of me. Washing me,
putting me on the toilets, changing me, everything. Note: we had met only
two months before!
So finally, I called the hospital and they told me to come immediately, I
sais I can't even get out of the house, then they sais, well, call an
ambulance... And so I did. So two guys arrived, hovering me up to the
bed-on-wheels, and they took me to the hospital. Where it took some time to
find out what had happened.
As it seems, I have too much Factor 8 in my blood. That's a coagulation
factorand the counts go UP when a person is under stress. Well, my treatment
(painful, horrrible) for the bone marrow disease was apparantly too much
stress so a little clog messed my brain up.
That's my story - hope it wasn't too long, can't make it shorter!
I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE HERE!
Elene
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Van: jeanne22 [mailto:jeanne22@...]
Verzonden: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 10:45 PM

Sounds as though "Clapshot" is very like "Bubble and Squeak". It also sounds delicious. Nice to hear from you, Barbara. I hope you are well. Mary Claire

When I make Claphot I coarsely chop cabbage and saute it,then mix it with mashed potatoes and butter. This was one of my youngest daughter's favorite"leftover" snacks after school. Sassenach is a Gaelic word meaning Englishman .Often it is a derogatory term, but Whitegoose probably didn't meana it that way.(Or did she?) Barbara

Explain please what is a Clapshot and what are Sassenachs

Rick

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I remember eating in fairly large amounts the feature of the evening "HAGGIS"

prepared every Bobbie Burns day by a good friend of mine Dr. Jock Burns, now deceased. He instructed us befote his death to pour a bottle of good Scotch Whiskey over his grave every year on the anniversary of his death Unfortunately he did not leave money to cover the expense so we all hoist a few in his memory. Probably better in any case, warms our bellies instead of being wasted on a cold grave.

Jock used to prepare the feast and depending on how far into his cups he was the dinner was something to behold. I don't suppose that we could get these weak-kneed, sallow looking, sapsucking yellow bellies to prepare that anymore. Ah! memories!

Explain please what is a Clapshot and what are Sassenachs? Any relation to the Sasquatch? Now there is a beloved individual that ranges around you there in the Coast Range. Now they are believable, Clapshots and Sassenachs I don't know? Dubious?

Rick

Note: this is just a rhetorical question.
We see a lot of reasons why a stroke can happen - yet, most of us can't believe
that it happened to us, or even that we were prone to it Strokes have been
around a long time. Probably as long as Man has been on the planet (I believe
animals sometimes get it, too?). If diet (high fat, high cholesterol) was the
main enemy - why do the Intuit Indians have such a low incident rate - their
diet is mainly whale blubber (bleah!)? Were there as many strokes (per capita)
several hundred years ago? Are people with high stress levels really more
prone to it? I remember the king (nasty fellow indeed) in Braveheart having
one. Have any of you investigated this? If so, what did you find?

After my stroke, I had swelling in my hands and legs. My parents said that
my legs were huge. I currently wear support pantyhose (when I was in the
hospital my legs had swollen so much that they had to cut my support
pantyhose off me). As for the hand swelling, if he has swelling there, make
sure he doesn't get any IVs put in there. What will probably happen is, the
IV will cause the skin to tear (as it is stretched and thin) and the medicine
in the IV to spill on the hand? This happened to me, and as a result the
some of the skin on left hand was burned off. I wear a burn glove for that.
LaVondra

This swelling I had myself - my hand and lower arm were like a balloon.
In addition to this trouble I had severe shoulder pain, when lying down. The
docs and therapists called this a "Shoulder-hand-syndrome".
Exercises were restricted to only some, under supervision of an occupational
therapist. To get rid of the swelling I was first bandaged tightly up to the
elbow, then got a special long glove to wear.
Thrice weekly lymphatic drainage massage was done on my arm.
When the trouble started, it was feared, that I would lose function of my
left arm forever.
Now I have function back to a good degree.
My advice :
DO NOT CONTINUE EXERCISES WITHOUT CONSULTING AN OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST !!
IF YOU CANNOT GET THERAPEUTIC HELP IMMEDIATELY; SKIP ALL EXERCISES WHICH
REQUIRE MUSCLE POWER FROM THE PATIENT !!
LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; EVENTUALLY ACCOMPANIED BY BANDAGING OR SPECIAL GLOVE
SHOULD SET IN IMMEDIATELY !!
Reinhard