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Hints on how to handle a STROKE - written by a survivor not a victim

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Downloads - Brought to you by Karen Wisse, compiled from suggestions from myself and other stroke survivors. Good luck to you and get on with smiling and being free from your former struggles - yes enjoy your new struggles, you've got the time now. Be loved and let people in and let them help with love not pity.


 

Isolation is a killer.

Get your dirvers license back as soon as you can.

Get a job, but make sure you get a healthy one. A lack of money is the most isolating thing I know.

Work in an office once you are at the six month mark - if you can. But don't work form home and don't pay your own taxes and don't take on a zero hour contract without holiday pay and without sick leave.

Don't do beading form home. Beads hide when they fall off your lap and only the vacuum cleaner can help. And that's heavy. Vacuum cleaners are now heavy - things are heavy. I had to wait a week till a visitor came and opened a jar lid for me. No I didn't starve. I now don't buy jars. Work around your issues.

Don't limit yourself to standing up jobs, you will fall over. Your balance is history and it will hurt you.

Don't take minimum wages and hate it. Don't begrudge your boss. Don't hate what you do.

Get creative, and if you can't get work don't stress it - find a friend and couch surf for a year. Get a PO Box or a family member to take your mail. GO LIVE.