Life After Stroke Support Group

Providing social, emotional, and educational support to stroke survivors, caregivers, families, and friends.
There is life after having a stroke. Stroke survivors and their family caregivers need help in adjusting to the changes in their lives. Our support group offers survivors, their caregivers, families, and friends a chance to share concerns and support each other. We unite around our common experience and find positive solutions. Our stroke support group allows survivors to help themselves and other survivors by creating meaningful lives after a stroke.

Be a thriving survivor. Participate in our stroke support group.

What are the benefits of joining the living life after stroke support group?
The group was founded to bring together survivors of all ages and longevities, so that each could benefit from others: solutions, experiences, knowledge, laughter, wisdom, and even complaints.

We are visible proof that anyone can cope with a stroke and live a quality life. We are a family for each other and we offer a special kind of comradeship that exists among those who share the same hardships. We urge all survivors and caregivers to join us.

Goals of living life after stroke support group include:
Providing assistance to stroke survivors to meet and work together to promote and enhance abilities and gain and maintain independence.

Provide greater awareness and understanding of cardiovascular events through public education.

Plan and present programs designed to educate survivors and their families and to provide opportunities for leisure activities and interaction.

Memberships:
Membership is automatic for all who have had a stroke and for their families’ caregivers, family, friends and the general public who want to learn about stroke. Our only interest is in helping each other.

Stroke support group meetings and activities:
A monthly general meeting is held at 10:00 a.m. on the first Saturday of the month. Social events are planned throughout the year. Several members also get together for breakfast or lunch at local restaurants. Please contact one of the following members for additional information:

• Gary Willmart: 632.0440
• Don Sisson: 320.8452
• Dr. Paul Cutler: 486.6123
• Sonny Franklin: 860.9317
• Beth Rabourn: 609.2671

Stroke Survivors Dos and Don’ts
Accept what has happened and who you are now. Rehabilitation may take a long time, but with motivation and hard work, improvement will come. Stress what you can do, not what you can no longer do. Don’t feel sorry for yourself. Your recovery depends on you, keep going. Don’t hide—get out there and see people. It’s important for your recovery to socialize. Be inventive and adaptive, there is a solution to most problems. Insist on finding it. Group members who have been there can help you with the solution.

Visit www.livinglifeafterstroke.com for more information.