March 15, 2010

Spring 2010 updates

Kit and I are no longer a couple, but we stay friends. Bruce is residing in DC, and we stay friends as well.

I am glad that I helped Kit financially over the last year and a half. I mentally and financially supported her to fulfill her life-long dream of becoming a woman. She is a free person now to pursue her happiness.

I take good care of my health. I exercise a lot and I watch what I eat. I volunteer at the Stroke Comeback Center. I just returned from a trip to Bahrain and Kuwait, where I gave a speech at the Kuwait Health Services Center. Bruce and I will travel to Australia and Thailand in December 2010.

My three dogs are doing fine, though Faith still needs to lose a few pounds. Spring is near and I can't wait to relax by my swimming pool and spend some outdoor time in my pool house. With the winter weather it refrains me from what I enjoy most which is swimming, but in the mean time I jump on the treadmill and count down the days until spring.

May 19, 2009

Greetings from Winston and Lisa

Hi long time no see. Lots of updates to be posted. Stay tuned!

May 19, 2009

Blog Restart

The blog will be restarted in the next few days!

April 12, 2009

Sorry for the Delays

Sorry we've been so long between updates to the site, but we had some software problems ...

changes are coming to the website

keep an eye out for a NEW RESTART

May 14, 2008

The right and power to talk!

Winston supports the journalists' fight for freedom of speech against the Chinese government because, as an aphasia patient, Winston understands what it's like not to be able to talk. He believes everyone is allowed and should be able to get the words out, no matter how you do it. Winston's speech disability has made it hard for him to voice his opinion. He wants everyone to have the right and power to talk.

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March 5, 2008

credits

Thanks to Winston's friend, Robert F. Dorr, for locating Dr. Leora Cherney.

Thank you, Bob!

Updates on speech treatment offered by RIC

Winston is very thankful to Leora and Jaime for their help and input in guiding Winston through the daily practice. It takes a lot of hard work and patience. Winston takes breaks in between sessions.

With Dr. Leora Cherney 2/20/2008

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with Dr. Leora Cherney of Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

On February 20, 2008, Winston travels to Chicago and met with Dr. Leora Cherney and her support group. Winston demonstrates how he speaks with the use of technological equipments. He shows his interests and concern in protecting the environment and stopping the global warming, followed by a discussion and a Q&A session.

RIC offers a speech treatment to Winston to be done on the internet. The treatment lasts for six weeks. Winston spends 90 minutes a day on the treatment completed in two or three sessions, six days a week. The treatment is conducted by Jaime Lee of the institute, a speech pathologist.

A thank-you note from Dr. Hallowell and her students

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Card signed by Dr. Hallowell and her students

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Front of card

February 29, 2008

Miss Autummus J. McDoggimus

Winston in the Lab
Winston in Brooke's lab

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Miss Autummus J. McDoggimus, Bob's lab

An open letter to Brooke
Thanks Brooke for taking the nice pictures of Winston and your colleagues. After seeing a picture of your lab (with Winston in it of course), Bob Dorr, Winston's friend, decided to send a picture of Autumn, his labrador retriever, to you, cc'd to a few of his friends. Bob is wondering if his lab is just as nice as your lab.

Trips to Ohio and Chicago, February 2008

We hope you enjoyed browsing the pictures Winston and Brooke took at the Ohio University. We've just uploaded two video clips each of Winston's presentations at the Ohio University and at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago on Wiston's YouTube site, keyword: WinGOGlobal. Don't forget to check them out, and share them with your friends. As always, feedbacks and comments are welcome.

Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFwZm-BF7lA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5YLLQcS4ME

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1vphA467XY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0rXbMorggg

Winston, Brooke, and students 2/18/2008

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After the class, Winston and Brooke invited three graduate students who specialize in aphasia to come to dinner with them. They went to Casa Nueva, an organic worker-owned restaurant that serves all local food and contracts with many local small businesses for its supplies. Winston was impressed by the sustainability focus of the place, and took photos of the list of small local organic businesses. One of the students, Maria, is from Russia (Moscow). Another, Sabine, is from Germany (Leipzig). The third, Kelsey, is from Las Vegas. Winston has a waiter take pictures of them together there.

Winston trying out the lab at Ohio University 2/18/2008

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Winston trying out something in Dr. Hallowell's Neurolinguistics Laboratory at Ohio Univeristy, photos by Dr. Brooke Hallowell