Jim is a stroke survivor that lost his speech and arm function after suffering a stroke. This is his stroke survivor story about how he continues to persevere and keep improving more than 8 years later. You can watch the full video below.
Hello, we are Jim and Marlys Williams. We began this journey about 8 years ago when Jim had a massive stroke.
Jim lost his ability to speak and he lost the strength in his left side and the ability to use his arm and his left hand. His speech is still a challenge but attends regular speech therapy through our local hospital.
However, he has not been able to take part in any formal therapy for his arm or hand for about 5 years so all the therapy he has for his arm and hands is done at home and on his own.
We purchased the MusicGlove earlier this year to help recover more of his hand function. Jim loves anything that uses technology and this encourages him to do more therapy than he would with simple repetitions exercises.
We want to encourage anyone that has hand or arm weakness to give this a try. Never give up because even after 8 years he is still seeing improvement. And as you can see, one of the things he does is he uses his good hand to help his weak hand but he is still getting the motion in his hand.
So we just want to say thank you, thank you for this opportunity.
You can watch Jim’s full stroke survivor story below !
