Create an emergency preparedness plan.
As I’ve been a wheelchair user for nearly 9 years to the day, I already have an emergency preparedness plan in place that is something that is necessary when need a caregiver. It’s also something that I wish I would have thought about before nearly dying 9 years ago, but as there was no way of knowing that my heart was literally a ticking time bomb it just wasn’t possible for me to think about. I do wish that I could have gotten an echocardiogram before a massive stroke told me that I needed one, because I wouldn’t be paralyzed today and for the rest of my life, but what’s passed is passed and moving forward is the only way to move. All I can say now is, please learn from my mistake,and get your heart checked thoroughly!