Thank you for your encouragement and prayers. You and your sisters are pretty tough cookies! 
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I think it’s because of the semantics, the word “stroke” is used for both but people often forget that one is an ischemic and one is a hemorrhagic. I ask for clarification now🤣
BH had an ischemic stroke a few years ago and I made up a joke. “What do you get when you put an ischemic stroke survivor with a hemorrhagic stroke survivor together? ….I forget!” BH added “And so do I”. Sorry dark humor.
We figure BH’s Granny had a SAH back in 1960 because she went home from the cotton mill down in Alabama before the work day was done. The village doctor was concerned so he drove over to their home, took Granny straight to the hospital and they fixed her up somehow, we don’t know the procedure back then other than a craniotomy and a metal plate.
We have many members that have celebrated past their 20 year date and even some with over 30 years behind them! I just had my 11th year on the 6th (operated on the 7th). Amazingly I quite forgot about it, PT was extraordinarily painful that day. If you do a search, you’ll find the abundance of survivors we’ve had as they many times put their anniversary topic in, some call it “annieversary”
What’s your favorite piece you like to play? Mom brought home an old Starr upright built in the 1800’s. My sister had a friend that taught piano so I was sent to her. I wanted to learn to play “Love Story” the popular song that year, she wanted me to learn Christian music. She would always write down that I needed to practice more. One week, I told my Mom I wasn’t practicing that week. She wrote down how my practicing made a great improvement and to keep it up. Mom let me stop going. I didn’t stay with it, oldest brother used to slam the oak keyboard cover down on my fingers. Can we say Negative Reinforcement?
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Hi, @Moltroub Thank you for your replies and posts. I play classical piano and I am in a monthly performance class. I was not a music major so my skills are just average. Lately, I have played tangos by Astor Piazzolla. I love playing Chopin, Mozart and Beethoven. In the evening I play music from movies and songs from the 30s and 40s. I can’t play by ear, though wish I could. My nervousness about Monday’s procedure is increasing and I keep looking for information that might predict my outcome but I know that it will simply be what it will be. Thanks again.
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I had an unruptured aneurysm fixed with a pipe line in 2020. Physical recovery took me about a year. I napped as much as my body called for. I was able to multitask at work after 18 months. I still bruise very easily, and have to take low dose aspirin for the rest of my life. I do have soreness in the angiograms area, and the repair itself. Femoral artery was used for the procedures, have not recover. Perhaps is a pinch nerve. Most of all I’m alive!
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My Dad’s brother never learned to read music, but hum him a few notes or let him listen to a song and he could play it. He could play just about anything and always kept his harmonica in his shirt pocket, pack of smokes in the other. He, my Dad and one of their sisters used to sing on their local radio station back in the ‘40’s. Classical music is beautiful, I think a lot of folks don’t recognize some more popular music as being from classical.
Remember to practice your box breathing all the time. When you breath out you might want to envision a color that gets all the negativity out and a different color when you breathe in that represents to you a positive color for positive energy. Start working from your feet, slowly up is one method I was taught, the other was from your head to your feet. I figure whichever ways works for you.
Predicting outcomes is so very difficult because each of us is different. I wasn’t supposed to make it, but yet here I am typing too much for my shoulder:crazy_face:
. It also made me think of Doris Day singing Que Sera, Sera for some reason. One thing I’ve done daily since I popped my pipe is a little thing with BH where I say “Guess what Honey? I’m loving you today!” I take one day at a time, look for a positive (today we saw a deer herd of 5, 2 were just pass their fawn stage so it’s growing again).
Remember You Got This!
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Thank you! Glad you have moved on with success. Helpful to know that I may expect some physical difficulty for quite a while. But I’m convinced I must have the procedure.
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Thanks for telling me more about your musical family! I hope you are writing your family story. You have a gift for telling stories beautifully. I will breathe more consciously and hang in there!
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Thank you! Glad you have moved on with success. Helpful to know that I may expect some physical difficulty for quite a while. But I’m convinced I must have the procedure.
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Hi , I’m 7 weeks post stent and coil, slow recovery but can’t believe how the procedure went so well , on aspirin and clopidral, small price to pay , I’m from England , amazing intervention radiologist xx
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I am NOT of the artistic type (I wish I was though, but even stick figures elude me!). Some of the group who are far more talented than I have shared their talents previously - which I still find all so absolutely incredible!
However, that made me wonder … are you able to share a recording of you playing the piano? Seriously, ABSOLUTELY no pressure to so do, and you are highly likely onto my secret strategy of distracting your attention by incorporating one of your favorite things! I am completely serious of feeling no obligation WHATSOEVER - only if YOU choose, please!
Fin Whale Fan
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Thank you! So glad you are doing well. I’m keeping the positive thoughts going! My niece lives in London and is getting married there next spring.
U will be absolutely fine x
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Thanks so much for encouraging my music! I’m a bit shy about sending recordings. And, in fact, I only have one or two and I am not quite sure where they are filed away now. But my neighbor today stopped me in the hallway of our building to say how much she enjoyed my playing so that indeed has spurred me on. Again, thank you for asking me about it!
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Thank you!
@seniorlady
Good luck with your surgery tomorrow 
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I (personally) would be reluctant to share my offerings as well, so I understand completely. 
If your stent experience is anything like mine, you are going to feel absolutely fantastic tomorrow after it is all done! Keep playing and box breathing until then. We are all pulling for you, and please let us know how you are once you have a chance.
Fin Whale Fan
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Hear! Hear!
Have a good day tomorrow, @seniorlady. Looking forward to catching up with you once the excitement is all dull and in the past.
Very best wishes
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Thank you!
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Thank you! I’m ready.
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Thank you! I will report back when able.
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