As a registered nurse, Sharon Overcast spent 30 years caring for stroke patients.
In December 2002, at age 62, she unwittingly became the patient after suffering a debilitating stroke. It was the end of life as she knew it.
Her left arm and hand were rendered useless. Her left leg and ankle were remnants of what they once were.
Its altogether different when it happens to you, Overcast said. I didnt think Id walk again.
But she did with a little help.
She now volunteers her time visiting other stroke survivors and their families, helping them comprehend that not everyone will recover the same and that some stroke-related disabilities will be more severe than others.
Its a real change of life, she said. But you meet what happens to you and go on.
Overcast, 72, plans to help others go on at a three-day Stroke Camp that will be held Sept. 27 through 29 in Red Lodge.
St. Vincent Healthcare, a certified Primary Stroke Hospital, is sponsoring the camp for patients and caregivers.
The specialty camp, which will be staffed by St. Vincent Healthcare stroke therapists, occupational and physical therapists, nurses and volunteers, is designed to help re-engage stroke victims, showing them the things they can do as opposed to what they cannot.
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Camp to help stroke survivors cope with lingering disabilities