The Tales of a Stroke Patient and More

I was well and then I wasn't. In one second, my life changed forever. I type with only one, functional hand and am the author of "The Tales of a Stroke Patient," the true story behind my hemorrhagic stroke and its consequences, including gruesome health professionals, frightful depression, and near-death encounters. I'll take you on the journey in this blog I've written for over 10 years, but be prepared for a bumpy ride. Contact info: Joyce Hoffman / hcwriter@gmail.com

Oct 19, 2014

Enough about Ebola. Get a Flu Shot!

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The CDC and the Dallas Hospital are in deep doo-doo. Unlike Vegas, what happened in Dallas didn't stay in Dallas. In an article by Chr...
Oct 6, 2014

Selfie Helped Woman Who Was Having a Stroke: She Captured the Whole Thing

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One of the many dictionary-type websites defines selfie as, " a photograph that one takes of oneself with a digital camera ...
Sep 3, 2014

A Nursing Home Mini-Series: The Final Chapter

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Ebola Virus I planned on writing more in the nursing home mini-series, but I've been sick with some virus. I gave the nurse a stool ...
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Aug 23, 2014

A Nursing Home Mini-Series: Praying Is Praying, aka Right Pew, Wrong Church

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Beatrice drank water and wasn't dehydrated anymore, and improved to the point where she could participate in the nursing home activiti...
Aug 19, 2014

A Nursing Home Mini-Series: Seeing Things That Aren't There, aka Hallucinations

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Maggy was a fall risk, never knowing when she would pass out, and Beatrice, who fell in her kitchen, had an IV bag attached to her arm becau...
Aug 15, 2014

A Nursing Home Mini-Series: Life with Old People

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Some of you missed my last post -- http://stroketales.blogspot.com/2014/07/wake-up-stroke-survivors-before-its-too.html -- in which I tol...
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Jul 28, 2014

Ho Hum: Life in the Hospital Is Mostly the Same, Except Sometimes....

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The most famous definition of "crazy" comes down to doing the same things over and over again and expecting a different result. I...
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Wake Up, Stroke Survivors, Before It's Too Late to Do Anything!

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Nobody told me about tendon transfer surgery while I was in New Jersey. Or Philadelphia. Or what I read on the Internet. So what is it?  ...
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Jul 12, 2014

The Day Before My Self-Elected, Drop Foot Surgery

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My grandmother, on my father's side, was born in Russia, circa 1884. She escaped to Paris for 6 months to avoid the Russian pogroms, pr...
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Jul 2, 2014

How Two Legal Drugs Caused My Hemorrhagic Stroke

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Pittsburgh, PA, is the magical land of good health where people embark on a journey just to be here, with Pittsburgh's reputation of n...
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