Just six months ago, Vicki woke up and taught an early aerobics class like she always did. She then went on to her job at the bank. A normal day quickly changed when she fainted at work from having a stroke. Since her stroke, Vicki has made immense progress physically; in six months she has…
Ann Semple was a schoolteacher and social butterfly who loved to travel around the globe. She collected beer cans along the way and ultimately collected thousands. Her favorite travel site was the Great Wall of China. Ann had her stroke January 1, 2001 while with her friend Greg. She was diagnosed with aphasia. Communicating with…
On April 24, 2007, Lynda performed her normal morning routine and left for her job as a K-4 teacher. Three hours later her husband was called as she was exhibiting levels of “confusion”. By that evening she was hospitalized with viral encephalitis. As a result of the encephalitis Lynda was in the Neural Intensive Care…
I knew when I was in middle school that I wanted to be a Speech-Language Pathologist and I knew that I wanted to help people who had suffered from a stroke. Oddly enough, I didn’t even know of a single person who had a stroke. During my childhood, I was surrounded with many many adults…
In 2007 I had a stroke and aphasia. I almost died but with excellent medical care at North Memorial in Robbinsdale, MN, superb speech therapy through North Memorial, and continuing improvement through MnCAN (www.MnCAN.org) I have continued to get better. I use my iPad to improve my speech and understanding with programs through Lingraphica, Tactus…