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In the fall of 2016, I was gifted 30 sessions in the Blu Room and after 10 sessions they profoundly affected my physical and mental status to the point I am amazed on a daily basis.
My wish is to convey my story in a way that inspires movement from within those that have the ears to hear.
- Dale
Dave’s story:
David is a 71-year-old Vietnam Veteran with a history of PTSD who had a severe heart attack in April 2014, and subsequently a stroke in August of the same year. His heart attack was so severe, that on the way to the hospital he went into cardiac arrest — he was successfully resuscitated and required stents in two of his heart arteries. The sustained heart damage caused him to have congestive heart failure from severe ischemic cardiomyopathy with a heart pump fraction of 30%, normal being about 65%.
Only four months after this heart attack, he had a severe stroke, that left him with right sided weakness and expressive aphasia, the inability to speak — he had a vocabulary of two words — “yes” and “no”. After his stroke, he was in a rehabilitation center for a month. He has been doing speech therapy for the last four years.