there is no cavalry, no one is coming to save you, you must save yourself

it's this realization going through this para;ysis that has fueled my want to help those that need the cavalry to come savethem. while i recognize the strengths i'm gaining living through this disability. i also don't want anyone else that doesn't need to go through this to go through this.

patrick'sguide to learning how to sing again after suffering brain damage

i suffered a stroke which left me paralyzed on my left side. it gave me damage on the right side of my brain which also affected my ability to sing. which I used to do well before, now II realize that it doesn't come so easy. so these are the steps I'm taking to helpretrain my brain. to sing again.

1.  listen to familiar songs often especially songs that I kused to know cold and knew I could sing well.
2. if necessary start with just listening first

3. move on to  singing in your head.

4. don't beat yourself up if you try to sing and you're off key or if you continue to stumble.

5. try lip syncing first work on just mouthing te words and feeling the music. get your brain remembering how you use to do it.


6. start with one song first.. just concentrate on one song.  listen to it constantly, let it play in the background, play it while you sleep.

7. hum the song and work on staying on key before moving on to actually trying to sing.
8. once you feel more comfortable and confident try singing for real along with the song,

9. once you feel successful in singing that song try these steps with other songs til you feel like you've got your vocal legs back.

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post stroke recovery update

physical therapy with my therapist still happens every sunday morning and wednesday evening that mainly consists of stimulating massage and stretching my left side in order to continually make sure those joints still maintain flexibility as far as diet i do make sure i take multivitaminsi keep up with consuming omega-3 fish oils vitamin c and serpentina before every meal my therapist always suggest that when bathing i always try to use hot water everytime i do babe i wonder if there's anything specific about the water here that may be attributed to my healing in general i do believe that environment is important for anybody is healthy well being the people you interact with the air you breathe the water that you bathe with and the water that may be used that you consume weather by drinking it or through the foods that are cooked with it no real drastic improvements i still maintain self therapy working on repetitions of squats to get my left leg tube and trying to get that function back so i can then that left me and point downward with my left foot which i'm not able to do yet but if repetition is a key then i am confident that i will get there i feel like repetition has been hoping in increased strength in my left arm i am able to extend it a little better day by day not fully to the point where i can extend it easily like i can with my right arm and left fingers not really able to grasp yet still working on opening and closing them closing them seems easier to do along with whistling my left arm i suppose any progress is good progress trying to maintain a healthy social media environment and overall a healthy internet diet most likely going to be clearing out my facebook friends list i already do a pretty good job of only following the things that interest me or please me or feed my mental health properly on facebook twitter and instagram i do believe that you become what you think of often so you need to maintain a healthy diet a what you feed your brain thanks to youtube i do play healing frequencies and healing music most nights when i go to sleep not sure if it's doing anything but staying hopeful because of it can only help.