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Jan Douglas

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A lot of stroke survivors I talk with describe themselves as "Lucky." I don't want to minimize the trauma or struggles that many survivors face. There are real challenges, and I don't recommend anyone go out and acquire a stroke, but luck is still a common theme. In my experience, I say I'm lucky because I have a great partner who has stuck with me. I got great care at the hospital. My stroke left me with physical disabilities, but no significant cognitive or language issues. And it opened my eyes to this whole fascinating world and community. I've talked with other folks who feel lucky because they have some cognitive challenges but no physical deficits. In episode 65, Joe Borges described his stroke as a blessing because of the way it rebooted his life. For former OT and corporate consultant, Janet Douglas, stroke was A Wonderful Stroke of Luck. And she wrote the book on it. Jan started her career working in OT in her native England. She would go on traveling the world with the World Health Organization, meet her future husband, become a Director at the Rehab Institute of Chicago, transition the world of corporate HR consulting, and in September of 2002, have a massive stroke. I find the pats people take to be fascinating. It seems completely random to go from OT into consulting at first glance. Take a deeper look, though, and it makes sense. Jan tells us in this interview how the transition was really just another type of OT, just on a larger scale. Bio Jan Douglas trained as an occupational therapist in her native England in the 1960s. The patients she least enjoyed working with were those who had suffered strokes. She found them slow, lacking in motivation and emotionally unstable. She specialized in the treatment of hand injuries, working at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London and then served with the World Health Organization in its Africa and Southeast Asia regions. While working in Thailand, she met her American husband, an oral surgeon. After moving to the United States, Douglas became Director of Occupational Therapy Education at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and pursued a master’s degree in public health. After graduating, she worked at Grant Hospital of Chicago, first as Director of Occupational Therapy and then as the leader of a hospital- based occupational health program, providing services to industry, local government and universities. From there she joined the world’s largest human resources and risk management consulting firm. As a global business leader, she worked with public and private employers, government agencies and healthcare systems, to improve their human capital management. She currently provides human resources support to a refugee resettlement agency. Survivor Gift Shops Are you or do you know a Stroke survivor with an Etsy or similar online gift shop? Let me know. As we get closer to the Christmas season, I'm planning to feature survivor shops on a future episode so folks can buy gifts and support the community. Just email Bill@Strokecast.com. Giveaway We're giving away a copy of Jan's book to one listener. Share this episode on your social media with the link http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck and use the hashtag  #Strokecast by the end of October. I'll search the hashtag at the beginning of November and pick one winner at random. Good luck talking about luck! Hack of the week If your doctor says you can drink wine, then YAY! Now you have to open the bottle. Jan discovered that a wine bottle fits in the garbage disposal in her sink securely. Now she puts a bottle in there and can use a corkscrew one handed to open the bottle. Links      A Wonderful Stroke of Luck Website http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com Publicist Tom tom@AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com Jan's email JanDouglas@Comcast.net A Wonderful Stroke of Luck on Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Stroke-Luck-Occupational-Therapist-ebook/dp/B07J67WQ13 Jan on 9&amp;10 News  https://www.9and10news.com/2019/08/23/a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck-surviving-a-stroke Refugee One http://www.refugeeone.org/ Refugee One on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeOne/ Refugee One on Twitter https://twitter.com/refugee_one Refugee One on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/refugeeone/ Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly RIC) https://www.sralab.org/ My Year Off on Amazon  https://www.amazon.com/My-Year-Off-Recovering-Stroke/dp/0767904001 Iowa Writer's Workshop https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/ Homonymous Quadrantanopsia    https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79948-3_740 Anosognosia https://www.healthline.com/health/anosognosia Julie Halpern Reviews A Wonderful Stroke of Luck  http://windycityreviews.org/book-reviews/2019/6/3/book-review-a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck.html      Where do we go from here?  Check out the website http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com to learn more about Jan Douglas and her book or to  buy it on Amazon. Share this episode to tell more folks about Jan's story and potentially win your own copy of the book with the link http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck Let me know about survivor run gift sources at Bill@Strokecast.com  Follow me on Instagram at http://Strokecast.com/Instagram Don't get best…get better. 

A lot of stroke survivors I talk with describe themselves as "Lucky." I don't want to minimize the trauma or struggles that many survivors face. There are real challenges, and I don't recommend anyone go out and acquire a stroke, but luck is still a common theme. In my experience, I say I'm lucky because I have a great partner who has stuck with me. I got great care at the hospital. My stroke left me with physical disabilities, but no significant cognitive or language issues. And it opened my eyes to this whole fascinating world and community. I've talked with other folks who feel lucky because they have some cognitive challenges but no physical deficits. In <a href="http://Strokecast.com/NeuroNerds" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">episode 65, Joe Borges</a> described his stroke as a blessing because of the way it rebooted his life. For former OT and corporate consultant, Janet Douglas, stroke was <a href="http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Wonderful Stroke of Luck.</a> And she wrote <a href="http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the book on it</a>. Jan started her career working in OT in her native England. She would go on traveling the world with the World Health Organization, meet her future husband, become a Director at the Rehab Institute of Chicago, transition the world of corporate HR consulting, and in September of 2002, have a massive stroke. I find the pats people take to be fascinating. It seems completely random to go from OT into consulting at first glance. Take a deeper look, though, and it makes sense. Jan tells us in this interview how the transition was really just another type of OT, just on a larger scale. Bio Jan Douglas trained as an occupational therapist in her native England in the 1960s. The patients she least enjoyed working with were those who had suffered strokes. She found them slow, lacking in motivation and emotionally unstable. She specialized in the treatment of hand injuries, working at the <a href="https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital</a> in London and then served with the <a href="https://www.who.int/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">World Health Organization</a> in its Africa and Southeast Asia regions. While working in Thailand, she met her American husband, an oral surgeon. After moving to the United States, Douglas became Director of Occupational Therapy Education at the <a href="https://www.sralab.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago</a> and pursued a master’s degree in public health. After graduating, she worked at Grant Hospital of Chicago, first as Director of Occupational Therapy and then as the leader of a hospital- based occupational health program, providing services to industry, local government and universities. From there she joined the world’s largest human resources and risk management consulting firm. As a global business leader, she worked with public and private employers, government agencies and healthcare systems, to improve their human capital management. She currently provides human resources support to a <a href="http://www.refugeeone.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">refugee resettlement agency.</a> Survivor Gift Shops Are you or do you know a Stroke survivor with an Etsy or similar online gift shop? Let me know. As we get closer to the Christmas season, I'm planning to feature survivor shops on a future episode so folks can buy gifts and support the community. Just email <a href="mailto:Bill@Strokecast.com?subject=Stroke+Survivor+Shops">Bill@Strokecast.com</a>. Giveaway We're giving away a copy of Jan's book to one listener. Share this episode on your social media with the link <a href="http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck</a> and use the hashtag <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=%23Strokecast&amp;rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS805US808&amp;oq=%23Strokecast&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j0j69i65.3436j0j8&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;ie=UTF-8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> #Strokecast</a> by the end of October. I'll search the hashtag at the beginning of November and pick one winner at random. Good luck talking about luck! Hack of the week If your doctor says you can drink wine, then YAY! Now you have to open the bottle. Jan discovered that a wine bottle fits in the garbage disposal in her sink securely. Now she puts a bottle in there and can use a corkscrew one handed to open the bottle. Links A Wonderful Stroke of Luck Website <a href="http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com</a> Publicist Tom tom@AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com Jan's email JanDouglas@Comcast.net A Wonderful Stroke of Luck on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Stroke-Luck-Occupational-Therapist-ebook/dp/B07J67WQ13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Stroke-Luck-Occupational-Therapist-ebook/dp/B07J67WQ13</a> Jan on 9&amp;10 News <a href="https://www.9and10news.com/2019/08/23/a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck-surviving-a-stroke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.9and10news.com/2019/08/23/a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck-surviving-a-stroke</a> Refugee One <a href="http://www.refugeeone.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.refugeeone.org/</a> Refugee One on Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeOne/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/RefugeeOne/</a> Refugee One on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/refugee_one" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/refugee_one</a> Refugee One on Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/refugeeone/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/refugeeone/</a> Shirley Ryan Ability Lab (formerly RIC) <a href="https://www.sralab.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.sralab.org/</a> My Year Off on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Year-Off-Recovering-Stroke/dp/0767904001" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://www.amazon.com/My-Year-Off-Recovering-Stroke/dp/0767904001</a> Iowa Writer's Workshop <a href="https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://writersworkshop.uiowa.edu/</a> Homonymous Quadrantanopsia <a href="https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79948-3_740" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79948-3_740</a> Anosognosia <a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/anosognosia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.healthline.com/health/anosognosia</a> Julie Halpern Reviews A Wonderful Stroke of Luck <a href="http://windycityreviews.org/book-reviews/2019/6/3/book-review-a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> http://windycityreviews.org/book-reviews/2019/6/3/book-review-a-wonderful-stroke-of-luck.html</a> Where do we go from here? <ul> <li>Check out the website <a href="http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://AWonderfulStrokeofLuck.com</a> to learn more about Jan Douglas and her book or to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Stroke-Luck-Occupational-Therapist-ebook/dp/B07J67WQ13" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> buy it on Amazon</a>.</li> <li>Share this episode to tell more folks about Jan's story and potentially win your own copy of the book with the link <a href="http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://Strokecast.com/AWonderfulStrokeOfLuck</a></li> <li>Let me know about survivor run gift sources at <a href="mailto:Bill@Strokecast.com?Subject=Survivor+Gift+Shops">Bill@Strokecast.com</a> Follow me on Instagram at <a href="http://Strokecast.com/Instagram" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://Strokecast.com/Instagram</a></li> <li>Don't get best…<a href="http://Strokecast.com/GetBetter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">get better.</a></li> </ul>

Ep 089 -- A Wonderful Stroke of Luck with Jan Douglas