Kathy suffered a stroke nine years ago, at age 55, after she’d been working a very stressful job to put her two kids through college. Kathy, in blue, with her brother and his wife at their last "Stampede for Stroke" event in St. Louis She remembers an...
I was one of the lucky ones. When my stroke hit, with no warning at all, I was fortunate to be visiting with two close friends, one of whom had had a stroke. When I stopped speaking mid-sentence, and slumped onto the couch with no...
Six and a half years later, I am writing another chapter in my book Identity Theft, while I’m also writing another chapter in my story of stroke recovery. I spent the month of May in Chicago doing another four weeks of intensive speech therapy at...