What's on Aaron's Mind
This Friday I'm going to get to share about what SCSS is doing with my local stroke survivors support group. Here is my outline and if you will proof it I'd appreciate it.
Hi!
Thank you for letting me share my lifes journey with you.
My name is Aaron Avila
Age – 50
Born and raised in Santa Rosa CA
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On September 17th 2010 the course of my life on this planet would change forever. In a blink of an eye as fast as lightning strikes, a cataclysmic life event struck me called stroke.
I survived a major brain aneurysm and two weeks later a major stroke. I haven’t walked since then, I don’t talk very well and bunch more deficits………… but hey! ……………..I’m alive right! I was given a Second Chance!
When I first came home from the hospital for what seemed to be so, so, long, I was in a deep dark place, like I have never felt before!
I was paralyzed on my left side, I couldn’t walk, and couldn't stop trying to figure out a way to get to my 40 Smith & Wesson and kill myself!
I finally came to the conclusion that the bathroom would be the best place because it’s all tile and would clean up the easiest.
Then it hit me like ton of bricks! I have an awesome wife! How can I even begin to leave her with such a hideous mess to deal with! The shame I would bring to my amazing son!
Then I realized I was looking at it all wrong! I have every reason to live! My awesome wife, my amazing son! They are the reason I choose to be a survivor!
I realized then, I was given a second chance at life on this planet!
Out of this deep darkness and isolation like no other mankind has ever known, I started a Facebook Group named after how felt inside. Second Chance Stroke Survivors 7 months ago.
When I started Second Chance Stroke Survivors in what I think is the darkest, loneliest, and scariest time a human can go through. I found out through Second Chance Stroke Survivors, there are hundreds even thousands around the world, feeling so alone, so isolated, also survivors of stroke. We are all starting to connect and we are now uniting the world through stroke survival.
In just 7 months we have:
• Official Second Chance Stroke Survivors Chapters in California, OhIo, Mississippi, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Australia and United Kingdom and others on the horizon.
• An Official website filled with Stroke Survivor Resources.
• I started a Blog 4 months ago that has been read by over 13,000 people around the world.
• We now have a monthly newsletter that has a published Author, Joyce Hoffman “Tales Of A Stroke Patient. Two Speech Language Pathologist, U.S.A. SLP Mark Ittleman and Rebecca Kipping SLP from the United Kingdom
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