Brain Attack: Surviving a Stroke

It may surprise you to learn how common strokes are: The World Health Organization reports
that every year fifteen million people around the world suffer strokes. Of these, five million die
and another five million more are permanently disabled.
The author, a successful certified public accountant (CPA) who survived a major stroke herself
in 2009, came to realize how much her positive attitude helped her cope with and accept the
losses resulting from her stroke. writing honestly and passionately about how she has
resurrected a full life after terrible losses followed her stroke, the author focuses on the positive
effects of optimism in her own recovery and shares the valuable techniques she uses to
maintain her positive, can-do attitude, so other stroke survivors can use them for their own
journeys of recovery. Carol E. Yorke wrote this book so others can better understand strokes
and the potential devastation that they can wreak on so many lives. Focusing on the positive
effects of optimism, the author shares what has helped her to survive and thrive so you can
learn to believe, as she does, that “every day is a new discovery.”
Stroke survivors and their loved ones, as well as health professionals working with them, are
inspired by the honest, loving, encouraging words from her own experiences and the helpful
resources that she includes.