I had an ischemic stroke Saturday blood clot on right side of brain

Sorry to hear that!
Welcome to a club nobody wants to join.

My stroke (ischemic, lacunar) was Christmas Eve, 2018. I'm still recovering.

You may find my YouTube channel about my journey, "From Recovery to Discovery", helpful. Each episode is about 5 minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/@srlucado/videos
(More episodes coming soon.)

Good luck, stay determined, and know that you are not alone.

It's such a scary thing for us to experience a stroke. I will encourage you to do all you can with the therapists to get the use of your arm and hand back. If yours is like mine, the therapists will have you doing all you can, and even what you think you can't, but hopefully will not push you too hard. When you go home, keep exercising your arm, hand, leg, foot. When I didn't for a couple of days, it was so hard! Daily therapy. I was 71 when I had mine, 3 years ago, and still have some days when my arm and leg feel heavy, but I'm learning that's just the way it's going to be and keep on going.
I hope to see you posting again and letting us know how you're doing. Just don't give up! Baby steps eventually lead to teen and then adult steps. I'm pulling for you, grrranny! (With a name like that, you sound like a fighter!)

PLEASE do not give up ! I am a tad younger than you at 76; I had my first stroke at 56, and way too many TIA's to follow throughout the years. Probably the most important lesson I would like to share with you is...don't give up, never give up. No matter what your religion, your beliefs are, nor your living experience is...you are ALIVE for a reason. So fight, dam it, fight for your life. And, then give back lessons learned to others who need you.
For that opportunity... I remain,
Always Grateful in New Jersey

Thanks so much Diane! Have now been in the rehab hospital for 2 1/2 weeks. They’re going to evaluate my case tomorrow and see if I can go home in the next few days or when. I will need 24 seven HomeCare for a week or two they said. I had a great Speech Therapist and don’t Need speech therapy anymore. We’re now working on mostly the occupational and physical exercise therapy A couple of hours a day, and I have gained a lot of strength in my left leg, but not Completely back to normal.my left knee has always been a problem. taking a few steps on a walker. Practicing transferring from wheelchair to bed and wheelchair to chair, etc. I’ve been using Sara Stedy up till now. Left arm is coming back to life, but slowly. No good grip yet. Bicycling, arms and legs in the gym. Walking wheelchair around outside of my room as much as possible, both to get strength back, and to lower my blood sugar. They are very conservative with insulin here! Thank goodness for my Freestyle Libre CGM!!
I can’t tell you how much your message means to me, And I’m so glad that you are doing so well!!

I hope it is appropriate for me to join this conversation, as my mom recently had a stroke, and had emergency surgery today to remove blockage in her basilar artery feeding her brain. She made it through, thank God, but at the same time I feel lost and have a myriad of emotions running through me. She is still not out of danger but the odds against her have been lowered. Reading your post about your symptoms and achievements have given me hope. I thank the Mayo Clinic for this support group and I thank you for your post.
Marcy

No Dear Grranny, THANK YOU. Sounds to me like you are on the right track, have negotiated peace with your body and mind and most importantly have learned more than just how to survive. Congratulations my dear friend. I, for one, am very proud of you. I continuously find myself saying things like "oh my hands just can't do that anymore" or, the RA which has set in my body "will not allow me to drive nor walk too far anymore". My recent lesson has been that it is not that I can't do things any longer...it is that I have had to take each challenge, one at a time, and just merely learn how to do it differently. And, thus far, I am winning, one moment at a time. So no, we do not have to merely survive...we can continue to move forward, with grace and dignity. Please keep in touch, I do check in every now and then, and would love to hear about your new adventure. Kindly, Diane

Biggest problem now is left arm pain at night. Didn’t sleep a wink last night and Physical Therapy is coming to give me a workout at 7 AM. I think I’ll be here three more days and go home on Saturday. A little nervous about that, as I don’t know what that will entail. Having home health aids there, 24 seven at first son will be driving me home, and then practice transferring from wheelchair to car yesterday more later. After I get home, I will continue therapy with outpatient physical Therapy. Handyman is supposed to be putting grab bars in our bathrooms hubby needs them, too. We have a temporary ramp now from the garage into the laundry room. was told today that my arm would be painful for six months. Yikes! Put on Physical Therapy‘s actually moving my arm. Imagine that. Still no grip, yet but I’m moving my fingers. Have some squeeze balls in my room To work with. The gym has an arm bicycle. I’m supposed to reach across the table, stretch my arm and moving it around as much as I can. I feel better in wheelchair than in the bed. But I can’t get comfortable. My blood pressure is sky high. They’re giving me two different meds for that it’s not fun, but are you post to give me a lot of hope, and I thank you from the bottom of my heart! Please excuse typos. Not seem to it with these old glasses. Was not able to get my new scription glasses before this happened. As they say, never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. You just never know.

I want to thank everyone again on the platform. Unfortunately my mom’s stroke was too severe and she passed away earlier today.
I wish all of you well in your lives as you navigate each of your individual journeys.
Thank you,
Marcy

Very sad news, Marcy.

May God grant peace to her, to you, and to all your family and loved ones.

@marcye14 - I'm so, so sorry to hear about the loss of your mom. Very sad news. Thanks for taking the time and trouble to come on and share this with those in this discussion.

I have not lost my mom, but I did lose my dad in 2022. I felt like I went around in a fog for 2 months. I was still able to do my normal things, but somewhat in a fog, which I believe was sadness/depression.

I realize you have a lot going on right now and a lot to process. A couple things to keep in your back pocket for when you feel up to it:

- An in-person or online grief support group. I joined an online one with complete strangers in another state in the middle of their grief curriculum, cause I felt like I needed it that much right at that moment. I later did an in-person one at my church. Many hospices and churches, among other organizations, offer these. I found it helped so much to be with others who really wanted to talk about losing a loved one and really understood.

- Mayo Clinic Connect, the same platform you are on here, has a support group you may want to check out: Loss & Grief support group https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/loss-grief/. This would also put you in touch with others experiencing similar losses and feeling that they want/need to talk about it with others who understand.

Again, I'm extremely sorry. It really hurts a lot to lose a parent.