DIVINE

So, I have an awesome 22 year old son named Ryan and we were talking last night, just him and I. I'm always telling how lucky we are that I did not have my stroke when he was young! How my heart breaks when I see young stroke survivors with young children. We were fortunate to live a lifestyle before my stroke that most only dream of when their 60.

We would spent 3-4 days a week in the summer on a lake.............wake boarding and fishing in our 18' wake board boat. Self employed! 

12 years self employed, owner of National Storage Tank and Rain Harvesting Solutions Inc. Allowed our family to spend most of the summer on a lake!

Owned a 40' triple slide 5th wheel pulled behind an 08 awesome Dodge diesel, Inferno Red, Mega Cab. Allowed us to buy and sell 4 houses in 2 states. Lived on and were members of a semi-private golf course where I got a 198 yard hole in one! Played more golf than most do in a lifetime. Lots of the most awesome family times we could have! Taught my son to play ball, shoot, fish, wake board and a whole lot more!

Ryan said last night it's like..................divine! 

We were allowed to live this awesome lifestyle early before my massive stroke!

Fortunate? Divine? Yes! With every fiber of my being, I say yes!

Hard to believe but we're................. I'm glad I had my massive stroke when I did!

DIVINE!

I'M NOT A VICTIM! I'M A SURVIVOR!

WHAT'S IT LIKE TO BE A STROKE SURVIVOR

I thought I would take some time and try to put into words what it's like to survive a stroke. Use the comments section below to tell me your version. So here goes!
One second your living your life as normal, walking, talking, your brain controlling your body flawlessly, working as one without any thought to whats happening. THEN..................STROKE OR ALSO KNOWN AS A BRAIN ATTACK!
Your life as you knew it ends........
Your now someone completely different! As if your old self dies and you emerge a stroke survivor. For me waking up for the first time knowing something is really wrong with me. You can't move the left side of your body. Your paralyzed, you can't walk anymore, you can't speak intelligible words, your brain seems to be totally disconnected from your body. You can no longer write but can only make only squiggly lines. You can no longer hold the courser of a mouse on a computer because you now tremor so badly. You can't chew or swallow anymore.......scary.... yes! Can't even put words together that would describe the fear you feel.
All you can think about is what just happened! You were just fine one minute and now your laying in a hospital bed with all kinds of beeping machines hooked to you! I mean you can't fathom the fear!
TO BE CONTIUED

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STRENGTH

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THE PLAN

Hey Peeps!

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All T’s will be silk screened by a local small business and are made in the  U.S.A.

Every purchase:

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Helps grow the SCSS mission

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ROUND UP YOUR PENNY’S AND BUY A FEW!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOO STROKE SURVIVORS!!!

MAKING THE PLANET A BETTER PLACE!!! 

WAM-EARTH WALKERS

WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
Being the kind of stroke survivor that can't walk, since my stroke back on September 17th 2010. I often just sit in the car while Rebecca goes into the grocery store real quick. So while waiting I realized their walking on planet earth! So I nick named them Earth Walkers.
I can remember, I was one of them years ago! It seemed so easy, so fluid, so care free!
Then I had a conscious awareness moment.
I took it all for granted! My whole life.................until my stroke!
Look! The Land Walkers all take it for granted also. The brain flawlessly moving their body's, effortlessly, Like water running down a stream.
Take it for granted? I'm telling you don't!
In a blink of an eye your whole world can change!
Remember to tell all those precious to you, that hold a special place in heart, that you love them!
Take it from me, life can change in a blink of an eye!!!

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GOT TEACHER?

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BLOG ALERT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOUR GOOD ENERGY AND PRAYERS ARE NEEDED! MY BROTHER RANDY TERRY'S WIFE JAN WHO HAD A STROKE 4 MONTHS AGO HAD ANOTHER MEDICAL EMERGENCY AT WORK TODAY. 
SHE IS NOW GETTING AN MRI.
I'll keep you updated as I get it!

SHORT BUT SWEET

"You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything"

BEING POSITIVE WILL ALTER YOUR FUTURE

Optimistic Brain: Positive thinking can change your life!

Take a moment before you go to bed tonight to relish in all that was good about your day.

Perhaps you enjoyed the company of a close friend. Perhaps you helps someone in need. Perhaps you simply enjoyed the sunshine or some element of nature.

What ever it is, focus on that positive aspect of your day. When you consciously and deliberately do this on a regular basis you WILL start to retrain your brain to do it automatically.

Give it a try for a couple of weeks and see how much better you feel

THE BEGINNING

I am creating this doc of what I was feeling during the first days of coherent awareness as a stroke survivor hope it helps you!

I remember first coming around not being able to speak and not being able to move my left half of my body. I will say it was the scariest point in time of my life!

I remember saying to myself I can just shake this off............telling myself, like any illness, I will feel better in a few days. 

Than it hit me like a brick wall just fell on me! 

This is very serious! This event is not just going to go away like a cold!

I am paralyzed on my left side, I can't speak words I can only think them, I can't sit up in bed without falling over this is very serious! But I still found myself convinced I was just going to get up from my bed and walk out of here!

After all it's me! How bad can it be?

I’ve always been the type of guy that gets up after being knocked down!

I had to face the fact that this was not going away! This reality scared the shit out of me! This can't be happening to me! Brain aneurysm? Stroke? I didn't even know what they were. I've heard about them, but they happen to other people but not me! This realization brought on a flood of emotions.......... Anger, fear, suicidal thoughts and more!

I found myself lying in my hospital bed, scared to no end, confused and angry and battling denial!

I had to fight like never before in my life! Fight to retain who I was as a person!

One of the hardest emotions I battled was the inability to tell my family how scared I was and how I loved them and needed them! Again I could think it but had no ability to verbalize it..............my speech was gone.

In a blink of an eye my life as I knew was over and a new life had occurred.

TO BE CONTINUED…………………

CHANGE IN THE SKY

As most of you know I love getting up an hour or two before sunrise and star gaze.
About a week ago I noticed something spectacular. As the fall air gets colder and thinner, more stars have become visible. The stars have went from billions to billions and billions!
It's an  incredible the change!
I now get to view even more awesomeness in the universe!
If you haven't taken the time to stop and look up..............I encourage you to pause in your busy lives and look up at the stars in the sky!
Take a deep breath and soak the universe in!
If it does for you what it does for me you may find perceptive there!
For me, it puts in perspective the hardships of lives troubles.
So take a minute with the family and look up to the universe!
It's awesome!

IF YOUR GIVEN A SECOND CHANCE

STROKE SURVIVAL THE HARDEST

WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
I can honestly say that I think stroke survival just may be one of the hardest life events a person can go through on this planet! It strips a person down to the very core of who they are! But we are different than most..................we're survivors and we must never stop fighting!.................we are survivors!
Every day we're alive on this planet has now become a gift! We are alive when we should be dead!
WE ARE SURVIVORS AND WE ARE STRONG!
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NFL PINK?

WAM (What's on Aaron's Mind)
So I'm sitting here watching the Packers vs Ravins game and I'm just amazed at how much pink I'm seeing!  What an awesome movement!

THE MOST INCREDABLE WOMEN ON THE PLANET

When I got up from my so called nap really a rest,, I felt the strong tug to wright this Blog. So here goes!

There is one person that has been close to my side like no other person on the face of this planet. One that has always been tight by my side and never left it! During the scariest, darkest time I have ever known on this planet. My wife, my everything, my one true love Rebecca Avila.
Who has proven to be stronger than I think she even realizes.
If it was not for Rebecca, my life, as I know it today would not exist. From the time my aneurysm exploded in my brain until this very day she has been tight by my side. In my book I owe her my life!
When I couldn't speak..............she spoke for me...............when I couldn't fight.............she fought for me................ Her name is Rebecca Avila.
She never has let me down!
She keeps our family together, a roof over our head and incredible meals in our bellies.............her name is Rebecca.
She is an amazing women!
Strong? That word is not powerful enough to describe her. Awesome!.............closer. Her name is Rebecca!
With every fiber of me as a man...................thank you Rebecca! Thank you for all you have done, currently do and will do for me and your family..................THANK YOU!

One handed can opener

One handed can opener

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TALES OF A STROKE PATIENT: HOW TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

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Fall is an amazing time of year

One of the good things that comes from almost dieing is you get this new and deep appreciation for what you have in your life.
One of the things I really get allot of awesome life energy from is waking up at around 5am just about an hour before the sun starts rising and soaking in the magnificent beauty of the stars and the universe that surrounds our planet. Awesome does not even describe it.
I get a great deal of perspective out of it. I begin to think in all my troubles and issues on this massive planet I am just a particle of dust in the universe.
Taking me out of my tiny world with all it's troubles and realizing I can do this!
Try it and let me know what you get out of it?