MEET MAX
Max had his stroke while he was alone, almost four years ago. He lay on the floor for nearly 20 hours. “I’ve been to hell and back,” he says. But, he is back, in spite of the many changes to his life. He and his dog, Suki, are big Kansas basketball and football fans. He takes some grief from the diehard Colorado sports fans around him, but he holds his own. He has a degree in accounting from Kansas University after all.
Making new friends at RMSC feels good to him in the two and a half years he has been in the program; he especially likes hanging out at the Rocky Mountain Stroke Center. Getting onto the computer at any time of day to check out what is going on is comforting, he says.
Max says he is very tired and struggles still with his emotions. He is motivated, he says, by his main goal of being able to carry on a conversation again. His stroke left him with aphasia. He attends one of the Aphasia Support Groups sponsored by RMSC, which he considers one of his favorite activities with other stroke survivors.
He cannot wait until he can go out “and raise hell again.Among his biggest accomplishments since having a stroke, Max loves that he can walk again. "The staff at RMSC has been very helpful when I needed it.”
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