User:Jave mary lacea/sandbox

--Jave mary lacea (talk) 03:44, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

a fine day in september 1995,howard rocket,a driven 48-yrs-old enterpreneur,leaped for pass in a friendly touch-foot ball game in downtown in toronto.he slipped and fell,hiting back of his head,and the minute later came to with wicked, ever worsining headache. then,dark spots floated into his field of vison.he ignored these things until three weaks later. when he was home alone and suddenly lost,control of his head and darkness,closed in.he groped his way to the phone,slowly tapped 9-1-1, then collapsed.

rocket's brain had been attacked by a bisilar thrombotic stroke, in which a clot blocks blood flow to the brain stem.this kills people, but rocket was savedby doctors who injected him with a clot-busting drug.in the days thaT followed,through,their prognosis was grim: rocket would never regain the use of his left arm,leg or foot.his muscles were fine, but the parts of his brain that directed them were serouisly damaged. in other words,he'd better get used to a wheelchair.

determined to prove the doctors wrong, rocket began rigorous physiotheraphy. if he made his left foot move over and over again, he figured, eventually the damaged cells of his brain would find a way to tell the foot what to do. after he learned to stand, he strapped his left foot to the pedal of a stationary bike at gym, then started pedalling. on the first day, he lasted only 30-seconds but he persisted. it was like doing set-ups for the brain. twelve years later, after thousands of the hours in gym, rocket danced on both feet. his doctors were amazed. "it was dramatic,"says dr. robert willinsky,the neuroradiologist who saved rocket's life with the clot buster. "he's a poster child,for sure."