Stroke Hope Stroke Prevention

This book, Stroke Hope Stroke Prevention, which I conceived and began to write over the last seven years from early 2008 through 2014. It is an important part of what I call the ‘Trinity of stroke, Awareness, prevention and recovery᾿. While these three important aspects could not defeat stroke in its deadly tracks. It goes a long way to help prevent one.

It is a proven fact that strokes are 80% preventable, although the causes and triggers for stroke are complex and ever changing. I suffered my massive stroke in 2006 and have dedicated the remainder of my life to work to spread the word of these three principles, awareness prevention and recovery of stroke.

There are millions of people having strokes all over the world every year. To me this is unacceptable because strokes are known to be preventable with good stroke awareness and prevention. The massive stroke that I suffered in 2006 could have easily been prevented by simply giving me antibiotics before and after my spinal fusion surgery and/or listening to my wife and I when we returned to the surgeon and reported to him the symptoms I was having pre- stroke.

He merely prescribed me more pain medication and sent us away. I had a massive stroke three days later. I have written this book Stroke Hope Stroke Prevention specifically to tell the world what can happen to them if they are ignorant about what can cause a stroke and the symptoms of stroke.

This book WAS eight years in the making. I spent the first year in a hospital bed following my stroke, and I returned home confined to a wheelchair.
The players in my writing tell their own story, although most of my work is written in first person context.

Lastly, I would hope that the readers of this book take away the knowledge needed to help them to prevent a stroke or brain attack, which is a major cause for brain injury worldwide.

I would like to thank the new men and women I met in my journey through stroke and taught me about a subject near and dear to my heart; to stroke awareness and prevention.

Danny Jones: author writer, speaker, and stroke ambassador for the American heart and stroke Association and advocate for stroke survivor rights.