The first thing I’d like to share is that it gives me a lot of satisfaction to help people.
This has been both a blessing and a curse. It’s clear why a strong, inner desire to help people is a blessing.
It was a curse because just about everyone I help ends up becoming a cherished friend, and I had to get some perspective in place in order to allow me to support my family, while serving these wonderful people I grew to love so much.
I was a very ambitious child, and scholastically very strong. My birthday was days after the state’s cutoff to begin kindergarten. So I was forced to remain at home one extra year.
Being the oldest member of my class was a sore spot for me. In third grade I convinced the school to allow me to test out of 3rd grade. I spent about 3 hours in the principle’s office, taking a multiple-choice test covering everything that a 3rd-grader should know.
The next day, someone from the office appeared at my classroom and asked me to step out. She then directed me to my new 4th-grade classroom. That was the first time I skipped a grade. I also skipped 5th grade (well, sort of – it’s a long story), and had completed my high school graduation requirements by the end of my 11th grade year, while also having completed two full semesters of college which was taken concurrently that year.
Undergraduate college was a breeze for me, and I actually completed a traditional bachelor’s degree in 2 years. A community college would only allow me to register for a certain number of credit hours in a given term. To get around that, I was actually attending 3 different colleges for most of those 2 years.
I later completed my doctorate degree at a chiropractic school, 2 years of post-doctorate training in a cutting-edge and scientifically-leading field called clinical neuroscience. And I studied at Harvard University for 2 years, in which I designed computer software that restores brain function.
I was in a serious accident when I was 13, in which I sustained a very serious traumatic brain injury. Even though the brain injury did not interfere with my scholastic abilities, it impacted me deeply, and I was driven to find answers and solutions.
For the past 15 years I have been helping people with all manner of neurological conditions mostly including: spinal nerve root injuries, learning disorders, autism, and strokes.
Recently I decided to dedicate myself to strokes only (however it’s possible that I will later expand this to traumatic brain injuries too, since they affect the brain so similarly). The primary reason for this is:
First, because it gives me so much fulfillment to see the impossible come true time and time again!
Second, because there are approximately 800,000 strokes every year, in the United States. About 140,000 of those die from the stroke, but this leaves 660,000 people I can help. That’s enough to keep me busy for the remainder of my life.
I can anticipate that you might have some questions. You may wonder if I work in a hospital, or if not in a hospital – exactly how I get involved with the process.
Actually, you have an excellent point. A stroke is most likely to be treated at a hospital. After the patient is discharged from the hospital, the patient is likely to be taken directly to a long-term acute-care (LTAC) facility. The patient will remain there while highly-skilled professionals will do everything they can to rehabilitate the stroke. This will usually last for months, until the LTAC has determined that all the rehabilitation that is possible HAS BEEN ACHIEVED.
At this point, the family will be instructed regarding home lifestyle modifications, and the patient will be sent home – expecting a substantially limited life from that point on.
This is where I come into the picture. They know that your loved one’s brain is stuck in dysfunction, and that nothing more can be done to restore beyond what they’ve done. They also know that there is only a very short window of potential recovery following a stroke – maybe 3 to 6 months, and they confidently assure you that the window of opportunity has now passed; that the period of hope for recovery is spent.
But these misconceptions have been solidly disproven by neuroscience for more than 2 decades. This is the reason Eric Kandel won the Nobel Prize in 2000. I’m not talking about some eccentric group that thinks the world is actually shaped like a pizza dish. I’m talking about thousands of dedicated neuroscientists, medical doctors, and other professionals who have dedicated their lives to brain recovery – including me.
I’ve decided that the best way I can help is by providing a stroke self-help subscription for caregivers of stroke survivors.
The brain is extremely complex, as is brain treatment. But what I’ve done is I’ve simplified the process, so much so that just about anyone can do it. The cost for access to my subscription is $225 per month.
However, in the very first month you can obtain the information you need to make a serious impact for good in the life of the stroke survivor whom you love.
If you subscribe for only one month, and that subscription leads to your loved one getting his arm function back, I would be totally thrilled with that! You may cancel any time, without penalty.
And what a good feeling it would give me to know that I was the catalyst that allowed these changes to happen! My assumption is that you will want to keep the subscription, partly because you’re so thankful for what I’ve done and you just want to show your support; and partly because you know that I will continue to deliver new and exciting content to the member’s area each month – which you know you don’t want to miss.
But it also makes me feel good to know that maybe $225 is all you could afford. Maybe you even had to borrow money to gain access to my subscription. This is another reason I feel so good about this subscription. For you who can only afford to stay for one month, I am able to deliver to you the information that you need to permanently impact change for your loved one! How wonderful is that!
And think about the cost. The medical treatment has already costed thousands upon thousands of dollars, much of which was likely covered by insurance. However, they’ve already told you that they can’t facilitate any further recovery. So you can’t even pay them for what I’m offering. There’s no price.
There are, of course, other scientists, medical doctors, and professionals who know something about rehabilitating your loved one’s brain. But the first issue is, how can you know in advance if they have the same types of skills, knowledge, and experience that I have? In other words, how do you know it will work?
The second issue is price. Will insurance cover it? The LTAC has already declared with full authority that no further recovery is possible. Even though we know this is wrong, the insurance company is likely to deny the treatment.
We’re talking about 3 to 6 months of therapy, 2 hours per day, 6 days per week. The average hourly rate for this level of service is around $300 per hour. My rough estimate is that this could cost $43,000 to $86,000.
In the real world, these services would need to be more affordable than that, and so they would come up with some creative ways to reduce the cost. This kind of care would require a huge lifestyle commitment, and while the total cost might not be quite that high, I am reasonably certain that the cost would be at least $20,000.
The subscription I am offering will allow you to get the same results as the $20,000 service, if you are willing to dedicate 2 hours of your time each day, 5 to 6 days per week, for at least 3 months.
If you can make that kind of tine commitment for your loved one...
Think about it – not $86,000, not $43,000, not even $20,000. You can restore function to your loved one for as little as $225.
You can even cancel after the first month, if you need to
Thanks for tuning into this podcast. It was a pleasure introducing myself. Talk to you soon.
