I was talking to Dr. Terrence Glennon, physiatrist with Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago at Herrin Hospital the other day and something he said struck a chord in me. So I will repeat it here.
“Don’t go hide in the house if you had a stroke. Who cares if you slur a bit?” Glennon said.
Having played a [...]

My mother was recently diagnosed with high blood pressure at the age of 59. Healthy as a horse all her life, the diagnosis sent her into an instant panic.
It didn’t matter that high BP is a fairly common condition affecting some one in three adults in the U.S. alone. What mattered was that it could [...]