: About Me

A stroke is a life-changing event. It forever changes the lives of the affected individual and their immediate families. Generally speaking, there are two basic types of stroke: ischemic (a clot) and hemorrhagic (a bleed). I prefer to categorize these types as catastrophic and cataclysmic. While these terms are not medical, they more accurately describe the impact of the experience. I am a survivor of the hemorrhagic type (the rarer and more serious of the two). The doctors told me that I was lucky to have survived this incident. The word "lucky" has quite a different connotation when half...