I attended my annual appointment with Carey Celeta Gosselin, CRNP, to review my progress following my stroke and discuss aphasia management. We focused on language exercises and decided not to join the aphasia clinic at Penn, as I am already involved with several groups, including Penn State, Penn, and Temple. Carey mentioned starting at Penn […]
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Arriving at the Event It was a cool, crisp day as I made my way toward the Bryce Jordan Center for the Teammate for Life Alumni event. My purpose for coming was to meet with Char Morett-Curtis, who had reached out to me just the day before to check my availability. Since I was
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“Golf with Aphasia is a problem. I tell everyone that I have a problem with aphasia because I can’t keep my focus. They also say the same thing, “that isn’t aphasia, that is Golf”. Last weekend, August 9th and 10th, I played in the Senior Championship at Torresdale, my golf club. I played every
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It’s Christmas 2021. It has been 18 months since I had my stroke. My life has changed. Sometimes it isn’t easy, but my friends and colleagues make it easier to figure things out. Because of my Aphasia, I worried that I would be stuck at my house because I hated being out in the
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Last week I participated in a study at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is “A Physic II, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Constraint Induced Language Therapy to Treat Chronic Aphasia.” Like I can figure that out! If you have Aphasia, you should look to see if it is of
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Early on Halloween, I had on a golfer costume. It turned into quite a trick for me. I shot an Ace, a Hole-in-One. It is rare. I am an amateur and not playing well. Being that I had a stroke on June 8, 2020, I blamed my terrible golf because of my Aphasia.
I have been with my therapy on aphasia language for working on learning stories. What we discussed was that once I get going, I write much further than I can. We talked about how to start with bullets to start and then work tiny short stories. I find ways that I can’t think the
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When I first started with our new technology company, a smaller company merged with a larger company. During our first meeting, the executives from the “new” company always talking like all of their leaders were “rock-stars.” Many of us who were hardworking figured we were outstanding, but people did not recognize us as “rock-stars.” It
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As I continue to see progress on Aphasia many of my vocabulary. With starting back in therapy after Florida, we went over some of the tests to see how we did. In many areas, I have done great. However, we talked about something called “Working Memory (WM)” or “Short Working Memory (SWM)”. It seems that
I just spoke on my Small World when I lived in Munich in 2007. As you know that working on my aphasia language is to learn using stories on AphasiaRocks.com. When I started the story, there were pieces I could not remember. I went into google earth and found the map in Marienplatz and from
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