Stroke TV Foundation Purpose

Hi! 

It's Stroke TV Foundation Founder Aaron Avila.

After meeting Don Ogan, a successful businessman who suffered a debilitating stroke some years ago, I asked him if he would serve on my Foundations Board Of Directors.

He responded with a question.
Where is the foundation going? What is the Foundations why?

A simple yet profound question.

So I began to contemplate why I and my Foundation does what it does. I write this document from my core as a man.

My why?

My why began when I became able to cognitively think again after suffering a massive subarachnoid brain aneurysm and two weeks later a massive stroke September 17th 2010 at age 47. 
(Read my story here)

My life had become catastrophically altered as fast as lightning strikes.
I felt so alone. So isolated. I thought to myself, there was no reason to keep living.

Then I felt inspired to go onto Facebook for the first time and socialize with my old High School Classmates. 

After getting to know Facebook, I thought I would  create a Facebook Group named after how I felt about my life. I wanted to see if there was anyone else out in the world who suffered a stroke like me at such a young age. 
(I was 47) 

I named the group Second Chance Stroke Survivors because I felt I was given a second chance at life after a life changing near death experience.

As other stroke survivors began to join my new group, I began to realize most of the stroke survivors out there were around my age and some even younger.

As I  began to talk with other stroke survivors in the world, I quickly realized most stroke survivors where isolated and most suffering so much worse than I.

I would hear stories of stroke survivors who were suffering so horribly that they would tell me they wished they would have died. This would rip my heart out and I found myself crying often.

I felt a purpose welling up in me. A calling if you will.
After my near death experience I felt my second chance at life I was given, came with a divine purpose. To help stroke survivors from around the world find their way out of the darkest energy I have known in my life, STROKE.

Brain Fatigue! More later peeps!
Love energy your way,
Aaron Avila 
Stroke TV Foundation