Abstract
85 Aaron A. Lew, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. A t age 30, I survived a bleed from a brain stem atriovenous malformation (AVM). By all accounts I should be dead or severely disabled. Luck, random circumstance, a Higher Power, God, or whatever you wish to call it has left me largely intact. I have a slight limp, propensity to drool, penchant for Paxil (less so for Peri-Colace), and the distinction of being a member of an increasingly large and diverse club—stroke survivors. I am also a member of a far smaller club—stroke survivors who return to work. Roughly 2 years ago, at age 38, I began working on a research project aimed at reducing the emotional stress of stroke survivors. I became an employee at the same hospital of both my inand outpatient rehabilitation, the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. In this article, I will describe this experience. I hope to expand understanding and maximize stroke survivor integration into stroke rehabilitation research. Although I offer no panaceas, I can provide my personal thoughts and observations as a stroke survivor. I hope to point out the strength that participation gave me and may give others when it is part of their survival equation.
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