Via @DanielPink [https://twitter.com/DanielPink/status/284702444842254338], the story of an Englishman who had a stroke and started speaking Welsh. The crazy things a stroke can do to you [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9767191/Englishman-wakes-up-from-stroke-speaking-fluent-Welsh.html]…
This playlist from TED includes Jill Taylor’s talk about stroke as well as Aimee Mullins on opportunity of adversity. I hope the other five talks are as good. 7 powerful stories of recovery after injury [http://blog.ted.com/2012/11/28/7-powerful-stories-of-recovery-after-injury]…
via @jsbaranski, CEO of the National Stroke Association…
Here’s a story I missed when it was reported at the beginning of the month, and I like it even better than the the one about the guy who climbed the whole building with a prosthetic leg [%22http://tmblr.co/ZhkhVyWk09Co]. > CHICAGO — Gripping a handrail and wearing a…
> In The Electric Mind [http://blog.atavist.com/post/23186952683/in-the-electric-mind-jessica-benko-tells-the] , Jessica Benko tells the story of a radical new technology, a pioneering group of researchers, and one woman’s effort to transcend her paralysis. It took me a little while to realize that I had seen this story…
Oscar Pistorius running in the Olympics on blades was cool; Steven Peace [http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/08/21/paralyzed-after-massive-stroke-cyclist-en-route-to-london-paralympics/] riding in the Paralympics with Bioness might be even cooler.…
> Don’t deny the diagnosis. But do defy the verdict. Norman Cousins via @FredericBrussat…
Stroke paient carries Olympic torch. Cool! (via@natlstrokeassoc)…