Stroke Awareness Month

Today is May 1st and it is the beginning of stroke awareness month. This month we are going to raise $50,000 to fight brain injury and stroke. We plan on getting our weekly radio show started and have found a partner for a potetntial TV segment. This month you can help by learning the warning signs and sharing with others.

If you notice one or more of these signs, don't wait. Stroke is a medical emergency. Call 9-1-1 or your emergency medical services. Get to a hospital right away!

Stroke Warning Signs

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm or leg, especially on one side of the body
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden, severe headache with no known cause

Not all the warning signs occur in every stroke. Don't ignore signs of stroke, even if they go away! Check the time. When did the first warning sign or symptom start? You'll be asked this important question later.

KSBR Collage show now available as podcast.

You can now listen to last nights publice affairs show on stroke in the player to the right or just click here.

The Angela Dione Foundation on Radio

Collage is a public affairs show on KSBR 88.5 FM and will be airing a show on Stroke inspired by Angela. The Angela Dione Foundation worked with KSBR to produce the show and the show includes guest interviews with experts in the field of brain injury and Stroke. Mary Kay Bader from Mission Hospital and Dr. Robert Jackson one of the best neurosurgeons in the country will talk about how to prevent and get help in the event of a stroke. The shows airs May 28th in honor of Stroke Awareness Month.

Wii and Stroke

The Nintendo Wii console has been incorporated into the Riley Hospital’s Tom C. Maynor Rehabilitation Center rehab program for patients who have suffered a stroke. The fact that the Wii requires the use of the whole body, balance and hand-eye coordination is ideal for stroke patients. The rather low price of the Nintendo Wii opens doors to other uses of the gaming console. Via the Meridian Star.

ChipIn

Hey everyone,

We have started our first ever request for support. We are learning this year about raising money for our cause and we have launched our first ChipIn campaign. These funds will be used to help us produce our weekly media shows to promote brain injury and stroke. We want to tell the stories behind this awful tragedy and share some inspiration and hope as well as provide people some guidance on where to get some help. W ewill also be launching an auction later this year so we are currently planning that out. If you would like to volunteer please contact us as we are looking for various positions to help grow the organization to achieve our mission.

NPR show to focus on traumatic brain injuries

By Kelly Kennedy - Air Force Time Staff writer

A two-hour radio program about traumatic brain injuries will feature ABC newsman Bob Woodruff as well as service members, their families and the medical staff that treated them.
At 2 p.m. Eastern Standard Time tomorrow, Talk of the Nation will air live from the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. The invited audience will include patients with traumatic brain injuries and their families. Woodruff, who suffered a brain injury when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Iraq, and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Richard Jadick, a combat doctor who received a Bronze Star for his work in Iraq, will talk about their experiences.
Woodruff was treated at Bethesda. Since his injury, he has reported extensively about service members with traumatic brain injuries.
The program will also include National Naval Medical Center staff members Rear Adm. Adam Robinson, Bethesda commander; Cmdr. Jim Dunne, the lead trauma surgeon; and Dr. Maria Mouratidis, who heads the Traumatic Stress and Brain Injury Program. Doctors will explain how they treat head injuries from the moment they happen to recovery in the United States.
Listeners can call in at (800) 989-8255 or e-mail at talk@npr.org. To find a local station, visit NPR’s Web site. The program will also be available online as streaming audio.

Site updates

Well we are tinkering with the site and over the next several months will continue to do so. We just added 2 cool things for you though. To the right you cna listen to our podcasts now directly in the reader and at the bottom of the page we have added a video wall. We will be updating our feeds to subscribe to oour podcasts over the next 2 weeks so please be patient as we try to get this all sorted out.