As long-suffering readers of the blog may know, one of the potential changes a stroke survivor might go through, is an increase in the frequency of anger. The UK Stroke Association suggests meditation to ameliorate the negative emotional changes that a patient go through.
[Maybe a jaunty ditty from the Apoplexy Newsletter might help?]
Suffering a brain injury, and the risk of depression associated with recovering from a stroke, has left me with an interest in mental health issues. So when I came across this –
– I had to check it out.
[Read on to find out more. And check out the Apoplexy Tiny Letter.] Continue reading Duchy Originals
Mrs Stroke Bloke and I were just talking about how over five years have passed since my stroke. A lot of things have changed since the day before the stroke. Since the day after the stroke. Since the day I was released from the Rusk Institute. And so on.
The rather hoary old saw I’m ripping here is, time flies…
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I’m starting to think in more detail about what I’m going to do for Death Awareness Week this year.
I was originally turned on to Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief‘s work when Mrs Stroke Bloke and I attended a Death Café back in 2013.
A couple of days ago, a teacher from London won $1MM as the world’s best teacher in the Global Teacher Prize.
Yeah, pay attention. You might just learn something. Today’s lesson: the arts and the art of surgery…
[For extra credit, check out the Apoplexy Newsletter.] Continue reading Doctor! Doctor!
So, in last week’s post I had a little laugh at the expense of Sir Bradley Marc Wiggins, Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.
Then I learned some new stuff. It’s good to learn new stuff. So, why not read on?
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I can hardly believe that I’m returning to the subject of that strange racist guy across the Atlantic with the architecturally complicated hair and the reactionary opinions who’s poured into oddly ill-fitting clothes. But I suppose that it’s an endlessly interesting topic to me.
[Who’s Stroke Bloke talking about? Prolong the anticipation and visit the Apoplexy Newsletter.] Continue reading Back To The Well
Hooray! It’s the long-anticipated return of the stroke news digest!
There have been some interesting stroke stories in the news this week, and I’d like to share them with you…
[Read on, and don’t forget to check out the Apoplexy Newsletter.] Continue reading Digesta Plaga #11
So, this happened this week:
As a veteran of a #stroke-related #trephination/#trepanning, I’m stoked to listen to this episode of Out Of The Ordinary on @BBCRadio4: https://t.co/MENIEnyhgU
Check out “Trephination” from @NerdBaitBand‘s The Treacherous Brain here: https://t.co/c6AOO49KuG pic.twitter.com/hi1xoGXVBU
— Ricky Monahan Brown (@ricky_ballboy) February 16, 2018
Well, not The Treacherous Brain live. Nor my own trepanning, trepanation, trephination, or trephining. Both of those events happened a while ago, now.
[You need this week’s Apoplexy Newsletter like a hole in the head.] Continue reading Fontanelle
Yesterday, Mrs Stroke Bloke sent me a link to what, at first, looked like an article in The Onion.
New study says 38-year-old men like “Creep” https://t.co/jlT83yW15e pic.twitter.com/3yv4tVsGOE
— Stereogum (@stereogum) February 12, 2018
I mean, seriously, right? Clumsily cut and paste Joe Biden’s head onto that, sit back, and watch the advertising dollars roll in.
[Find out about the latest developments in memory science below,
and check out the Apoplexy Newsletter here.] Continue reading These Things