I want to offer an apology to those of you who visited here Monday and read the Black Hills story by Chuck Hofvander and now find it replaced with this one. If it looked familiar to you, yesterday's blog about Black Hills was a duplicate of one I posted last October. Not sure how that slipped by me. The one below about Robert Hutcheson is the one intended. However, if you missed the Black Hills story and still want to read it, click on the October link under Blog Archive at the right of your screen and you'll find the story under that.
by Chuck Hofvander
by Chuck Hofvander
Robert Hutcheson Stroke in July 2001
The normal process was: Get up, walk down the hall, go into
the bathroom, do whatever was needed and repeat the same thing in reverse. But
in July 0f 2001 things were not normal. Bob got up, walk down the hall, got
into the bathroom and passed out. Passed out? Stop, something must be wrong
with this picture.
Bob recalls falling, trying to get up, failing again but
nothing after that. His wife came into the bathroom to see what was wrong and,
for some reason, she knew right away Bob had suffered a stroke even though as
Bob says “she doesn’t have a doctor’s degree.”
From this point on until three weeks later Bob has only
intermittent moments of memory. His wife called their son and they drove Bob to
the hospital. On their way there, his speech recovering for a few moments, he
asked his son “how fast are we going” and his son responded “don’t worry about
it Dad, I don’t have a drivers license anyway.”
They airlifted him to St. Anthony’s hospital in Rockford and
then after one week they transferred Bob to Rockford Memorial. His wife tells him that he could not sit, stand, walk, or carry on a
conversation but
he has no memory of what happened during those three weeks; after Bob recovered
his memory his wife said he used that to ignore her.
He soon recovered his memory Bob was sure after three years
he would be like he was “like recovering from a cold”. He said to himself “Don’t get happy here your
ass is going to beat this”. He was so
sure that he’d beat stroke he signed a three lease on a farm. But he soon
realized that was his life now.
Before the stroke Bob had a positive attitude toward life
and it continued after the stroke. Bob says “life goes on and things are different
today and they will be different tomorrow, you have to adjust to it.” Bob goes
on to say “Be yourself and try to make things better going forward.”
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