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Stroke Survivors! Living a Joyful Life After a Stroke
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Price: $10.00
Author: Herschel A. Pahl
Format: Paperback, 261 pages
ISBN: 1-57087-508-1
Publisher: Professional Press, Chapel Hill
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This Nebraska farm boy, Herschel Pahl, was working his way through college when WW-II came along
and before he became a Naval Aviator and married Miss Bonnie Lawrence. Thirty years of active military duty, three
sons and three wars later, they retired from the Navy and made a happy life for themselves on their Ozark farm
raising cattle, grass and grandchildren. Since Bonnie`s stroke they have been spending full time learning to do
the best they can with what the stroke left them and preparing to share their unique love story with the whole
world about living a joyful life as stroke survivors.
Bonnie is the survivor and her husband, Herschel is the full time care giver. The book is a love
story about the first ten years of life together after the stroke. It has now stretched out in excess of twenty-four years and they are still going strong at the age of 88.
The book (261 pages) contains many lessons learned from experience which should be passed on to many
health care givers and stroke survivors and many potential stroke survivors. The legal and technical portions have
been carefully checked out with professionals who work with stroke survivors.
In order to make the book useful to their readers, this couple faced up to the fact that they had
to include details of their own very private life, i.e. marital relations and provide answers to a full range of
questions that stroke survivors were bound to want answers to.
The author, a retired Naval officer has been married to his wife Bonnie for 64 years. During 30 years
of that time Bonnie served as a professional Navy wife, living at 30 different addresses and raised their family
of three sons - much of the time alone through long periods of lonesomeness while her husband was at sea. Even
though the stroke robbed her of her ability to speak (aphasia) and left her paralyzed on her right side, they walk
together, cruise, travel and do about everything they want to do. They do not ask for sympathy because they are
having a good life and through this book they want to encourage other stroke survivors to do the same -- above
all -- do the best they can with what they have and be happy and proud of it.
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