Welcome to the first edition of The Stroke Scoop: News for Health, Hope and Help! This e-newsletter is being created by and for stroke survivors, their family, friends and caregivers. We'll share tips about useful books and websites, health information, ways to stimulate your brain ('Get a Grip' column), stories about people in our community ('Survivor! Vancouver'), and more.
I'm Lin Mouat. After my strokes I earned the name Bead Lady due to all my bead projects, and a few months later I became the first Stroke Ambassador Volunteer in the Comprehensive Stroke Center at Southwest Washington Medical Center. Now I'm taking on a new role as editor for this e-newsletter!
Did you see the column, 'Survivor! Vancouver' yet? I'm a living example of the truth that recovery is a journey. Strokes on each side of my brain certainly should have at least made me crippled or bedridden, don't you think?
Thanks to the 'clot buster' drug that broke up the clot lodged in my brain, first on the right side and 3 weeks later on the left. The doctors tell me that I am in the upper number of the 1 percentile of survivors that recover this quickly and this well.
Four and a half years after my second stroke, my journey is still unfolding, and every day is a gift. My dream with this e-newsletter is to encourage, uplift and give you the tools that we all can share. And I'm looking forward to hearing your stories too!
