Long Term Stroke Recovery Progress

It has been over 7 years since I had my stroke. I was paralyzed completely from the tips of my toes to the top of my head, and I am here to say that with much hard physical and mental work it is possible to maintain a long term fully functional recovery from this type of stroke episode. My last MRI showed an area between the two hemispheres of my brain the size of a 50 cent piece that had died. But no perceptible long term disability has materialized from this, sure I tire a bit more easily then before and when I am very tired I tend to slur some words but nothing major. My ability to do physical work is not what it was so I moved into supervision and do fine there. What I mean by all of this is that from my experience if you have had a stroke you can come back from it and live a good life. Sure it will be a SOB to pull yourself back, pain and sweat,disgust and fear but damn it's a darn better thing than laying in a bed and giving up.

Drug companies and mystery illnesses

If you watch any national news you may have seen as I did this morning the story on restless leg syndrome. It seems that the majority of doctors in the country had never heard of this illness until they were approached by a patient asking about the medication they had seen advertised on television. So either patients are more medically educated then their doctors or doctors need to watch more drug advertising so they can be aware of the new fantasy illnesses being created by drug companies or medical schools are failing to teach their students well enough. What? More likely than any of the above though is the possibility that the drug companies are not satisfied with multi-billion dollar profits and are creating illnesses out of thin air to market useless drug to gullible people. With seemingly good results.