• LeaAnn: Exercises for Dysphagia

    I always start my start my story with “I went sleep as LeaAnn and woke up a total stranger.” On September 2014 Labor day, I suffered a bleeding stroke and brain anyurism followed by brain surgery to relieve the pressure. This was due to a blood disease I caught in my mechanical heart valves after…

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  • LeaAnn: My Beautifully Broken Brain

    I always begin my story with “I went to sleep as LeaAnn and woke up a total stranger.” On September 2014 Labor day I suffered a bleeding stroke and brain anyurism followed by brain surgery to relieve the pressure to my brain. After some routine dental surgery, I caught a blood infection in my mechanical…

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  • LeaAnn: Aphasia and Apraxia

    Speechless: Traumatic brain injury, Aphasia and Apraxia  I always start my story with “I went to sleep as myself and woke up a total stranger.” On September 2014 Labor day I suffered a bleeding stroke and brain aneurysm which led to brain surgery to relieve the pressure on my brain. This was due to a…

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  • Go Orange… For MS Awareness – LeeAnn Swinney

    I always start my story with” I went to sleep as LeaAnn Swinney and woke up a total stranger. This time I’m doing things a little differently. I must let you know that i do not suffer from MS. A very dear friend of mine is slowly losing her battle with MS. Not in death..…

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  • The War Within PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury

    I always start my story with I went to sleep as LeAnn and woke up a total stranger. On September 2014 Labor day I suffered a Acute Subdural Hematoma. A bleeding stroke and brain aneurysm followed by brain surgery to relieve the pressure in my brain. This was caused by a blood infection that went…

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  • LeaAnn: Invisible Illness

    Isolated : The Lonely Side Of An Invisible Illness I always start my story with “I went to sleep as LeaAnn, and woke up a total stranger.” On September 2014 Labor labor day, I suffered a bleeding stroke and brain anyurism which led to brain surgery to relieve the pressure, due to an blood infection…

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