On the morning of January 17th, 2013, when being inside my house with my wife, I suffered a sudden massive stroke. Before suffering the stroke, I worked from home. I had three small businesses, logistics, security, and passport photograph services. I spoke fluently in Spanish, English and some Portuguese. I played tennis every day in…
My name is Paul. I can’t talk very well. I had a stroke in 2013. I couldn’t talk for 4 months. When I did talk the therapist told me to talk with Christmas carols. That it helped. Now I work in the yard. I can go in the car. I have old car 1959 Buick…
I woke up December 1998 and could not talk. I thought I had laurengitis. I went to work and worked 10 hours. We came to Winter Haven Hospital and when I told them it started more than 12 hours ago they told me you have a 2 hour window. I woke in the hospital and…
I am a speech-language pathology graduate student at Jacksonville University and am currently taking a course on aphasia. My professor’s extensive knowledge and compassion has poured over to her students, and I have become so passionate about helping those affected by aphasia. We have had experiences with guests with aphasia come into our class several…
Back 2013, September 3th, I and my friends, who DJs also decided to party at Gatundu town, at a gig invited to DJ. Then day came and we hearded there. Then the night came, I had two or three drinks, around 1Am, as the party was going on, I had a pressing short call. I…
When I was 16 years old, I was in a terrible car Accident and had a traumatic brain injury affecting the left side of my brain. Because of my TBI, I lost the ability to talk, walk, swallow, etc. By the grace of God and some very good therapists, I regained all of these skills.…
The first time Aphasia came to my life in didn’t no what it caled, I had just had my 4th and 5th strokes in 2 weeks August 2012. We living in France and I went to GP after 1st the 2 strokes and she not bothered by my talk. To weeks later I not able…
I was a CNA working my way through nursing school and did home care with Russ. Russ had a major stroke that left him with some expressive aphasia. When we first met her would have difficulty getting his thoughts into words. Over the two years we were together he continued to have smaller strokes, and…
Ed’s life was all about sports. From seeing his first World Series in elementary school to playing basketball, soccer, running track, and skiing through high school, his love of all things sports took a hold of him at an early age. Ed was captain of his high school’s varsity soccer team for two years and…
On August 26, 2008, just 2 weeks short of her 75th birthday, my mother, Ollie Baljkas, suffered a triple infarction CVA, a stroke that damaged 2 of the speech centres of the brain. Her stroke-related hemiplegia has almost disappeared, but her expressive (or fluent) aphasia continues. From birth, my mom never had an easy life…