Ihave had a stroke

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Ithinkmost people who know me know thiis.This is me…

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It was a doozy ahemorragic stroke 70% mortality rate. somehow I survived,Iwas driving back from a job interview when it happened.Myleft side is completely paralyzed.Fortunately the right side still worked or there would have been a hell of a wreck.It has been almost a year ago minus 3 weeks. I intend to rejoin MS when I am able.Ihope the starving artist rates will stilllbe in effect. Basically Iam unemployable. I write this laying on my back looking over a keyboad on a laptop that is slowly dying.I do not recommend typing while laying on you back it sucks. I am struggling but it lloks like I will make it.

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Things I would like to do for the electronics committee / lab
Donation of Equipment would anyone be interested?
Stereo Microscope
PCB Board Etching
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Hello, Wendy. We heard about your stroke a few months back - glad to hear from you again.

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#3

How far do you live from DMS? What city? I doubt you can drive, but I may be able to pick up now and then and bring you to the Space if you’d like. Just getting out can be therapuetic!

PM me if you can. I live in Arlington.

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While I appriciate the offoer I could not use I am profoundly paralyzed I have tried getting into cars It yakes a ver strong person to lift me because I am pure dead weight. Awoman whom I had adopted as my sister has stepped up to be my caretaker…I’m not missing any meals. Iqualify for Dart paratransit,Which will come to my house with a wheelchair capibl van withseveral days notice.Anoth person has stepped forward to help me in and out of bed for rehab excersizesI have been blesed by freinds

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#5

As you progress this is a standing offer.

My mom had stroke, I know one of the things she hated was a sense of being “stuck at home” and “isolated”. You’re a “regular” and we’d like to see you back. I know you did a lot of 3D stuff and with limited use of just one arm you can still enjoy doing that …as compared working on a car!

I’ll add you to my list of folks I pray for.

Shalom

David

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#6

I am so happy to hear you are alright and on the path to strength and recovery.

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#7

I plan on being a pest here. I am a moderator of All about circuit. an electronics forum. So I am no stranger to forums in general, I love designing electronics in general though I feel dated by ucontollers.Part of the stroke hit I took was mental. I have problems with short tem memory,You want help designing something I am your girl I also like to teach.I miss 3D printing.

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#8

I have short term memory loss … age associated! Make yourself a pest!

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#9

Welcome back to talk! If you need something 3d printed, happy to do so. Filament is no charge but you’ll have to do the design :slight_smile:

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#10

My son is talking about getting me a chrombook.I really do need alaptop. My needs are minimal I need some thing that can run the few CAD programs I use including M/SPaint I’ve tried Linux Paint but canot turn off theantialiasing feature. It messes up tecnical drawings. He hMy son has this plan to useMy desktopnwith Teamviewer. I dropped this Laptop and messed up the battery mount. It really is on its last legs.

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Something weird happened last night when I tried to sleep Iwas so jazzed I stayed awake until 9AM .Normally I sleep like a log, Been very active on the forum(side effect.I could al most feel my brain rewiring itself. I have had feeling return toseveral parts of my body rhat have had nofeeling since the stroke. My bladder for example I can now feel my hand. It has the infant reflex where it grabs if somthing is put in the palm. No real control. but very encouraging.

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#12

Wendy, I am MS half blind artist. Last summer my hubby had
several small stokes, no real movement issues, but he has
problems with speech. While I was taking him to speech therapy,
I realized that my sight was going, I lost over half my sight due
to macular degeneration. Now he has to drive me, I keep hoping he
will find something there he wants to take a part in, other wise he would
just go to the store and stay home and read (we were both big readers)
I have realized that I can use the CNC tools to compensate for my sight issues
Now I just need to learn the software to use them

#13

Truth pme of the things I am greatful for is friends and family. If I had been alone this could have been a hellish death sentence. As is I have hope, lots of it.

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#14

I have a chromebook I’m not using, if you want to borrow it indefinitely. <3

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#15

Would a beagle bone or raspberry pi be sufficient for browsing the internet. What are hardware specifications?

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That is far outside myexpertise A rasbery Pi can run Linux.it has a video and an Ethernet connection. For someone who is knowledgeable it should be easy

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I notice people do not respond when I post. No big deal as I don’ have much to offer yet and this forum is slower than I am used to… I sincerely hope this will change sometime in the future. No real changes on the home front,I am Still hopefull. I seem to be fighting a lot of intern urinary infections. Is there a bus stop nea DMS or Tanners? I don’t see myself driving even i I become mobile tomorrow. don’t see that happening either. I am using my time to learn KiCAD, I think this would be a good precursor course for The PCB cutting mill in the electronics lab? What is the name of it again?

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There’s the 533 bus at Valwood @ Monetary. Can easily get on that bus from the Green Line and the walk to DMS is minor

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Wendy,

You will qualify for ParaTransit, which will take you door to door and provide assistance at both ends.

https://www.dart.org/riding/paratransit.asp

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#20

I will be signing up for this myself, the do charge but it is a reduced fee
I expect to be using it to relieve my hubby of some of the dribing

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