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beth-thames's picture
Aug.17.2011
We're supposed to help "the handicapped," but sometimes we don't know how. My mother taught me something about that as she navigated the world in her wheelchair. She'd landed in that metal chair  following a stroke she'd had in her early seventies. On our annual trip to the Gulf of Mexico, a...
doreen-payne's picture
Oct.15.2009
I had two strokes - December 2008 (my arm) and March 2009 (my leg, mouth and arm). I'm glad I'm still alive! the drs didn't pick up the first stroke. my right side is affected and have clots in the left side of the brain.I can't do maths any more - that's hard! - and have trouble with spelling and...