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...camp begins with evaluations on Monday, moving on to stroke-training and analysis during the week...
Campers get a certificate and a t-shirt, as well as a written stroke evaluation which Lloyd says in one of the advantages of the camp...
...Echocardiograms that measure the thickness of the heart's main pumping chamber may help doctors judge which patients are most at risk for heart disease or stroke and require aggressive therapy...
...probably began with a stroke of lightning on a juniper or spruce tree, or in the oak brush that dotted the parched sandstone slopes of Colorado's Storm King Mountain. For three days the fire behaved itself, apparently stalled on a mere 50 craggy acres near the resort town of Glenwood Springs (pop. 5,800), 60 miles west of Vail. Extinguishing it fast did not seem a high priority; 13 other fires were burning nearby, and more than 100,000 acres blazed elsewhere across the hot, dry U.S. West...
Castro draws on personal experience in the book as well. Her father's stroke in 1991 confronted her with a bureaucracy that made cost, not wellness, the basis for his hospital release. Not until he realized that his recovery depended on himself and not the white coats he had so believed in all his life did her father improve. He finished reading Janice's book just before he died in May, at 79. "I get calls from doctors who have read that chapter who comment what a brave and determined man my father must have been," she says...