Having A Stroke

The Stroke

Having a stroke is not a pleasant experience. I don't care if it is a transient, mini, or whatever you want to call it. Here is briefly my experience two weeks ago.

4 am Easter morning, I woke up to a tingling feeling in the face and decided to go the bathroom. I got as far as my wife's dresser and noticed my right arm was feeling funny and thought I was going to fall down. So stupid me, I just went back to bed. After about 30 minutes of tossing, my wife asked me what was wrong. I guess my answer scared her because she immediately said you are going to the doctor. I got dressed, took an aspirin, and got into the car, and she was at the hospital in about 3-4 minutes. After tests, etc., they determined that I had had a stroke and started treatment.

During a seizure I could hear and understand perfectly but could not talk coherently, focus my eyes, or move my arms or legs on the right side of the body. The seizures lasted about 20 minutes in duration and came and went for about 6 hours. After that was over I was admitted to the hospital for 2 days of observation and discharged.

After two weeks I do not have any disabilities that I am aware of. I am sure this is because we got to the hospital quickly and I am fairly good physical shape.

Symptoms of a Stroke

• Sudden numbness or weakness of the face, arm, or leg (especially on one side of the body)
• Sudden confusion, trouble speaking or understanding speech
• Sudden trouble seeing in one or both eyes
• Sudden trouble walking, dizziness, loss of balance or coordination
• Sudden severe headache with no known cause

If you even think you are having a stroke get to a hospital immediately. For more information on strokes, search the internet for "stroke symptoms".

Finding My Niche

In my sessions with Wealthy Affiliates, the Week 2, class has a section on finding your direction. Here I have been struggling. I guess that is common difficulty. When I first joined with them, I set my Niche to be Stocks/Online trading. Over time I have sort of drifted away from that but now am coming back.

As of today, I plan to start concentrating more on the forex market. I started my education in currency trading in 2004 and have dabbled in it ever since. (I must confess, not very successfully.) I have currency platforms for manual trading and autotrading from GlobalTec Solutions and over the years have used both. Most of my currencies trade now are done via the autotrader called CommandTRADE FX. I like this autotrader but there is a lot to know before you consistly make money with it.

Yesterday I purchased another autotrader called Forex MEGADROID. They claim a trade accuracy of 95.82%. This product uses a trading platform called MetaTrader and then they embed a module into it to support the autotrading. The installation was fairly straight forward for both the MetaTrader (trading station) and MegaDroid modules. One key piece of information, when you purchase the product is that they use ClickBank to process the order and use ClickBank's order receipt number as the authenication code for the MegaDroid module. I must of entered an incorrect email address as I have never received my receipt from ClickBank and don't have the ClickBank receipt. (My mistake) I will report more on this product later after I have my receipt number. Most of the internet reviews are positive.

On actual trading, I mostly trade the following: GBP/JYP, EUR/JPY, USD/JPY, AUD/USD, and EUR/USD. For some reason I seem to like the Japanese (yen) pairs.

If you are interested in trading currencies there are a lot of articles on the internet that explain currency trading. How much you need, etc.

Last night was a very good night for trading. Currency selloff was consistent all night and out of 21 trades, I took 1 loss which I manually took. Boy do I like it when this happens. This doesn't happen that often. My trading started at 8:30 pm and I closed out of everything at 7:57 am with over 500 pips. (A pip is the smallest price increment in forex trading. It actually stands for "percentage in point".)

No, I haven't forgotten about ChuckyTrader.com. If you haven't checked it out lately, do so...

Back to my studies. I am now learning more about article writing and Squidoo, and Hubpages, GoArticles.com and USFreeAds.com.

Later...

First Article Continued, Etc.

I finished my first article and submitted to Ezine. Like I expected, it was returned for corrections. I put too many links in the first submission. You are allowed one... I have resubmitted and am waiting for the results. The article is about a Beginner - Internet Marketing. I will post a link to it if it becomes available.

I updated my web site http://chuckytrader.com rearranging the home page some and adding a page for DVDs, Kindles, and a banner to eBay.

Do you know what a Kindle is? (I didn't) Kindle is a product from Amazon.com that is a book reader device that allows you to read books via a 6" display screen. These books are downloaded with a wireless connection that connects directly to the Amazon.com Kindle Store with over 90,000 titles.

On my web site you can find best selling books, magazines, movies, and music plus some other items.

The best selling book, Liberty and Tryanny by Mark R. Levin and is a great read. Other must reads are: Put Your Dream to the Test by John C. Maxwell, Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga Collection by Stephenie Meyer and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer.

Some of the best selling music DVDs are: Quiet Night - by Diana Krall, No line On The Horizon - by U2, Twilight Soundtrack - Various Artists, Chris Botti in Boston - by Chris Botti, All I Every Wanted - Kelly Clarkson.

Some of the best selling movie DVDs are: Slumdog Millionaire, Wall-E, Marle and Me, Doubt, Stargate Altantis.

Have a great day...