WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
What I'm about to share I by no means am perfect! I'm learning as I was given a Second Chance on this planet.
I read one time that the religious leaders of the day were arguing about what spiritual gift was the best and greatest to have.
It was said that you can have the gift and faith to move mountains but without true love it's meaningless! The greatest most powerful force we can have in our lives is true genuine love for all people in our lives!
A genuine and true love that can see past others faults, wrongs against us, disappointment, and sexual orientation.
Let us all be the ones to live, give and show true genuine love to all human beings in our lives!
Make it a powerful day!
By Aaron Avila
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Thursday, August 29, 2013
THE ROAD
WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
Down this road we call life remember that it is but just a millisecond of time that the present becomes the past. Never to repeat again! ................So soak it in! Why? Because it's the energy of life!
By Aaron Avila
Down this road we call life remember that it is but just a millisecond of time that the present becomes the past. Never to repeat again! ................So soak it in! Why? Because it's the energy of life!
By Aaron Avila
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
YOU HAVE THE KEY!
WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
Something keeps playing over and over in my head...........caused by Randy Terry awesome post yesterday! (Never the same)
Do you want the key to your recovery?
IT'S IN EACH OF YOU! FIND IT! DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO! IT'S INSIDE EVERY STROKE SURVIVOR!
THE KEY HOWEVER DEEP, I GUARANTEE IT'S IN THERE!
READY?
It's believing with all your heart their is life after stroke survival! Know with unwavering dedication and commitment you can do it with a lot of hard work!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! STROKE SURVIVORS!
Something keeps playing over and over in my head...........caused by Randy Terry awesome post yesterday! (Never the same)
Do you want the key to your recovery?
IT'S IN EACH OF YOU! FIND IT! DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO! IT'S INSIDE EVERY STROKE SURVIVOR!
THE KEY HOWEVER DEEP, I GUARANTEE IT'S IN THERE!
READY?
It's believing with all your heart their is life after stroke survival! Know with unwavering dedication and commitment you can do it with a lot of hard work!
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! STROKE SURVIVORS!
Do you have a gift?
In order for us to be all we can be as human beings and to impact the people around us and make this planet a better place, we need to identify, accept our gift no matter how far out they seem!
Than and only than can we live deep fulfilling, meaningful lives!
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Never the same. By Randy Terry
So many times I hear I want my life back, Said it myself, made myself miserable. Now 6 yrs post stroke I see I will never get the old life back its impossible. The trials of this stroke and recovery has changed my life forever and for the good..
I am a survivor and the things I have learned about life will not allow me to return to the old..Sure some of the things I loved doing are gone but I have adapted to change not easy but no choice.
For the first few years of this I played that pity thing mad at the world, why me. One day got up tired of this got to be a better life after stroke. Put the wheelchair in corner picked up walker and started this hard work. Soon I was on cane doing the same thing it is not easy by no means but guess what not only was I walking but I felt proud thats why you hear me say "Stand Tall And Proud.. Its not a secret hid from you its what you want out of life. Do not waste your time in this place its very lonley and nothing there to gain but misery. I am no writer ,not smarted than you it takes time to heal just got to get that brain thinking right and get up and get it done. Time is on your side you got plenty of it so don't think its got to all come at once work slow and steady it will come.. rt.
I am a survivor and the things I have learned about life will not allow me to return to the old..Sure some of the things I loved doing are gone but I have adapted to change not easy but no choice.
For the first few years of this I played that pity thing mad at the world, why me. One day got up tired of this got to be a better life after stroke. Put the wheelchair in corner picked up walker and started this hard work. Soon I was on cane doing the same thing it is not easy by no means but guess what not only was I walking but I felt proud thats why you hear me say "Stand Tall And Proud.. Its not a secret hid from you its what you want out of life. Do not waste your time in this place its very lonley and nothing there to gain but misery. I am no writer ,not smarted than you it takes time to heal just got to get that brain thinking right and get up and get it done. Time is on your side you got plenty of it so don't think its got to all come at once work slow and steady it will come.. rt.
You decide!
WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
We as human beings have the power within our brains to choose to make our day a good or bad day!
So choose to make it a good day today!
We as human beings have the power within our brains to choose to make our day a good or bad day!
So choose to make it a good day today!
Monday, August 26, 2013
Secrets
WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
One thing that I have come to learn is that our secrets will robe us of precious life energy.
At some point in our lives the truth will always come out!
So we need to live our lives with no secrets and being 100% truthful will make us a better human being on this planet, give great peace and the truth will set us free!
One thing that I have come to learn is that our secrets will robe us of precious life energy.
At some point in our lives the truth will always come out!
So we need to live our lives with no secrets and being 100% truthful will make us a better human being on this planet, give great peace and the truth will set us free!
Saturday, August 24, 2013
A stroke survivor making the planet a better place!
Here is an article on a new sister in stroke survival! I'm proud to be her!
http://www.strokesmart.org/
http://www.strokesmart.org/
Friday, August 23, 2013
The way Aaron sees stroke survival
WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
I know that this may hard for some of you to agree with right now but it is my strong opinion that stroke survivors are truly gifted people! Yes it's so hard! One of the hardest things you can go through on the planet...............BUT THERS HOPE!
What's worked for me is I try not to look back at my old life BS (before stroke) with a longing to go back but allowed an utterly devastating life shattering event to become my most awesome life teacher! We must look and move forward only! Learn the truth about life on this planet, truth of 100% genuine love, the value of our lives as they are! When your brain wants to go back to your old way of life tell it you’re not going that direction anymore! Making the most out of the second chance we have been given! Were alive when we should be dead! Work hard at recovery not to go back but to do better than you were before! Forward never backwards!
I know that this may hard for some of you to agree with right now but it is my strong opinion that stroke survivors are truly gifted people! Yes it's so hard! One of the hardest things you can go through on the planet...............BUT THERS HOPE!
What's worked for me is I try not to look back at my old life BS (before stroke) with a longing to go back but allowed an utterly devastating life shattering event to become my most awesome life teacher! We must look and move forward only! Learn the truth about life on this planet, truth of 100% genuine love, the value of our lives as they are! When your brain wants to go back to your old way of life tell it you’re not going that direction anymore! Making the most out of the second chance we have been given! Were alive when we should be dead! Work hard at recovery not to go back but to do better than you were before! Forward never backwards!
Thursday, August 22, 2013
Raising Stroke Awareness
Here is a project i've been working on.
Want to get involved?
Every purchase raises stroke awareness and raises funds to help stroke survivors worldwide. I will have order details completed this week.
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Step 1 My Lifes Journey
WARNING HEADACHE
6 months prior to my aneurysm exploding in my brain I was having the most painful headaches of my life! I thought for sure they were just what other people called migraines!
I never had a migraine but I thought what else can the headaches be. I told all the people I knew had migraines my symptoms. Excruciating head pain, extreme light and sound sensitive. They also thought had all the symptoms also. So I began to take every medication that was available at the pharmacy and nothing brought me the slightest relief. So desperate for relief I convinced my friends that had prescription migraine medication to let me try their medication. They also offered me no relief whatsoever.
At this point 3 months before my aneurism exploded, The headaches became so excruciating that death started to feel like it was the only way I could get relief!
I was self employed! Had been for 12 years. My families income was seriously being affected! I must work! I mean it’s my first migraine after all! So I would go to the office only to spend most of the time laying on the floor in extreme pain.
(Months before my aneurysm exploded) -THE DAY THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
My family loved to go to Boudins in SF eat, have a few drinks and enjoy the energy of the city once every two months or so. But this day was different! In excruciating pain, but it was my son Ryan’s 18th birthday, I had to go!
So our family goes to the old bunker overlook just before the Golden Gate Bridge. So here I am, in the most excruciating pain of my life trying to soak in the magnificent views. I’m being tough in front of my family down playing how much pain I was actually in. What my family doesn’t know is that I had been seeing double at times for about a week. I did not tell them because I didn’t want them to freak out! After all it was just a real bad migraine right!
Here I am sitting on a bench trying so hard to ignore the pain and soak in the just awesome views when all of a sudden everything turns upside down! Guaranteed I was the only one on the face of the planet that saw the Golden Gate Bridge that way that summer day!
I dropped my head into my hands, saying nothing to my family, I mean I’m not going to ruin my sons birthday! It's just a real bad migraine!
I kept rubbing my eyes trying desperately trying to make my vision correct itself. I told no one! At this is the point I realized something was seriously wrong with me!
The vertigo finally stopped and I told no one!. So I pushed through the rest of the day! I mean I had to!
MONEY? WHAT'S THAT? ANERYISM WHAT' THAT?
Now being self employed during the years of the big crash after 2008 money was extremely tight. We could not afford insurance and after this episode I knew I better get insurance right now! Again I told no one how scared and concerned I kept my fear and concerns silent. So I get Kaiser insurance
3 months before the explosion of my aneurysm. If I had not got insurance things could have been real, real bad for the family.
3 months before the explosion of my aneurysm. If I had not got insurance things could have been real, real bad for the family.
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Saturday, August 17, 2013
Life leasons from The Lion King!
I wanted to share something I have carried with me for long long time! I have carried it with me since my son was in diapers, he is now 20.
If you have never watched the animated film Lion King it's a great film!
Here goes.......................
In the film there is a scene with Rafiki (the Insightful Guru Orangutan) who is in a field with Simba (The Lion King) giving his awesome counsel to Simba.
In this scene Rafiki takes his staff and hits Simba in the head! Simba yells ouch that hurt!
Rafiki laughs and begins to tell Simba that things in our lives do hurt and are not easy!
Rafiki swings his staff to hit Simba again in the head! This time Simba ducks and Rafiki misses than Rafiki begins to laughs and says to Simba....................Yes.........things in our lives do hurt but we can either learn from them or run from them!
Rafiki than swings his staff to hit Simba again, he again ducks and Rafiki misses!
Rafiki say's see Simba! We can learn from those things that hurt us!!!
In our lives we are given on this planet there is allot that hurt us! But lets make a choice to learn from them not run from them!
Make it a great day Blog peeps!
Aaron
If you have never watched the animated film Lion King it's a great film!
Here goes.......................
In the film there is a scene with Rafiki (the Insightful Guru Orangutan) who is in a field with Simba (The Lion King) giving his awesome counsel to Simba.
In this scene Rafiki takes his staff and hits Simba in the head! Simba yells ouch that hurt!
Rafiki laughs and begins to tell Simba that things in our lives do hurt and are not easy!
Rafiki swings his staff to hit Simba again in the head! This time Simba ducks and Rafiki misses than Rafiki begins to laughs and says to Simba....................Yes.........things in our lives do hurt but we can either learn from them or run from them!
Rafiki than swings his staff to hit Simba again, he again ducks and Rafiki misses!
Rafiki say's see Simba! We can learn from those things that hurt us!!!
In our lives we are given on this planet there is allot that hurt us! But lets make a choice to learn from them not run from them!
Make it a great day Blog peeps!
Aaron
Friday, August 16, 2013
Unhealthy pattern has happened
Morning Blog peeps!
Well after waking up at 3:30am for the last several mornings a bad habbit has fomed.
I have trained my brain to wake up at 3:30am! NOT GOOD!
After the past several mornings of waking up at 3:30am waking the wife up several times (we know that's never good) and moving a clock to my night stand so there is no confusion, I made a promise to the wife never to leave the bed before 4:30am.
This morning my new time (3:30am) brain whent off! Instead of rolling back over to begin training my brain...I grabbed my phone and decided to play (bad choice).
The light from my phone was so bright it woke her up. Frustrated she said "just get out of bed...you are waking me up just laying there playing on your phone"
I explained I was committed to 4:30am. She again asked me to just leave!
Awesome! I thought and transferred myself to my scooter and left!
I have read several scientific studies and they know for a fact the human brain only heals when you sleep!
So for us stroke survivors a bad sleeping habit is not conducive to recovery.
If you're a stroke survivor sleep is critical!
I'll keep you informed how retraining my brains alarm clock goes over the next week.
Make it a great day peeps!
Thursday, August 15, 2013
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Take time to soak it in!
For any of you in Blog land out there that are stroke survivors and
now have a sleeping issue like me.......................
So there I am 3am running the huge risk of
waking my lovely wife. (Doesn’t wake up in a good mood at that time.)
So I transfer myself into my scooter, being as quite as possible!
Roll myself outside only to see the most awesome stars!
(Worth the risk)
I sat in awe of what I was seeing! (Several shooting stars
latter)
I begin to realize....................In the universe we are so so tiny!
So I downloaded Google Sky Maps to my smart phone………..how
awesome! I now know the names of what I’m seeing!!
Try it for yourselves tonight by yourself with the family!!
Download Google Sky Maps soak it all in!
It will give you perspective!!!!
The Dark Night Nurse
My blog yesterday triggered a past memory that occurred shortly after my stroke.
So there I was laying on a hospital bed so scared, not fully comprehending what had happened to me. I mean what is a brain aneurysm? What is a stroke? I’m only 47 years old.
My life on this planet almost ended! Really? It’s me! A man that could almost do anything. So fragile, now clinging onto the very thread of my life on this planet!
I remember a night Nurse would come into my room take care of me. She would waken me from a deep sleep with just her presence in my room. With her presence alone she would begin to take and drain what little life energy I had left.. The life energy we all have and take for granted each and every day. I would later understand she was a life energy sucker!
This type of person in our lives need and must go so we can be fully be bathed with positive life energy. For us to be everything we can and to be the awesome human being in this one life we are given they all must go!
Back to my story……..
This dark energy Nurse would come in do her JOB, I’m sure to hospital standards but she did so much damage to patients they will never know! Just her presence in my hospital room was so oppressive and dark even in my extremely fragile condition coupled with my inability to form many words, all I could only words I could mutter and form were the words evil and dark nurse. My awesome wife Rebecca and advocate sprang into action. She could wear a big red S on her shirt in my book! We told the nurses boss that we no longer want her in my room! Yes! Don’t let anyone ever tell you that you have to tollerate a Nurse you don’t like! NEVER!
I took some grief over this because her fellow nurses couldn't understand what I meant by
evil and dark but it was so worth it! She was gone! Never to steal my fragile life energy again!
Good Nurses
I have to take a minute to say that I have the utmost respect and admiration for all the good nurses out there. I learned quickly that the heart of a good Nurse is like none other on this planet! They truly care about you and are the ones that do all the day to day grind like, clean you after an accident, bath you, lift you, give you your shots, change your sheets on your bed and genuinely want you to be as comfortable as you can in your ill condition. To 99.9% of Nurses that cared for me I say thank you! With every fiber of my being I say thank you!
Who am I?
Hi!
My name is Aaron Avila.
I survived a major brain aneurysm and stroke back on September 17th 2010. I haven't walked, talked the same (Aphasia) since then put I'm alive!
I was fortunate, unlike countless others before me who died............ I was given a second chance at life!
Hence my email address -2livesin1@gmail.com
I am also the creator of one of the most dynamic stroke survival groups on FaceBook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/secondchancestrokesurvivors/
My goal is to take you on a journey before, during and after my stroke along with my insights I have learned along the way.
Hope it inspires you in your own life!
One thing I have become very thankful for is my life itself!
I'M ALIVE! I'M ALIVE WHEN I SHOULD BE DEAD!
My name is Aaron Avila.
I survived a major brain aneurysm and stroke back on September 17th 2010. I haven't walked, talked the same (Aphasia) since then put I'm alive!
I was fortunate, unlike countless others before me who died............ I was given a second chance at life!
Hence my email address -2livesin1@gmail.com
I am also the creator of one of the most dynamic stroke survival groups on FaceBook.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/secondchancestrokesurvivors/
My goal is to take you on a journey before, during and after my stroke along with my insights I have learned along the way.
Hope it inspires you in your own life!
One thing I have become very thankful for is my life itself!
I'M ALIVE! I'M ALIVE WHEN I SHOULD BE DEAD!
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