The Walking Miracle

By Stephen Rudloff Sr.

I want to thank Dr. Madineni and Abby and their staff for all their help and guidance with all my surgeries. I want to thank everybody who purchased this book. I hope you enjoyed it. I am a cancer survivor and stroke survivor--brain bleed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jan 23, 2023
• ISBN: 9781662477799

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The Walking Miracle

Stephen Rudloff Sr.

Copyright © 2022 Stephen Rudloff Sr.

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING

Conneaut Lake, PA

First originally published by Page Publishing 2022

ISBN 978-1-6624-7778-2 (pbk)

ISBN 978-1-6624-7779-9 (digital)

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

The Beginning of my Medical History

August 10, 1997

Mom's Funeral

Lung Cancer

My Stroke

The Second Time They Removed the Top of My Head

Last Chapter

About the Author

To the following people in my life who were there for me during this time of my life:

Stephen (son) and Laura

Edward (son) and Marisa

Pamela (daughter)

Kathy (sister) and Bob

Diane (sister) and John

Peter (brother)

Shawn, Taylor, Jake, Eddie, Luke, Gina, and Maria (grandchildren)

Frank and Ann, a retired police officer (personal friends)

Lorraine and Alan (drivers)

Linda, neighbors, and Al Salvatti a good friend

Acknowledgments

Below is a list of doctors I would like to thank for their help and professionalism during my recovery from each of my surgeries.

Dr. Antony De Salvo (my primary doctor who saved my life at least twice as I remember) and his office staff for their help with my medical records.

Dr. Pres Tel, my pulmonary doctor is now retired.

Dr. Korn Beng, cardiologist, at Lankenau Hospital.

I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and surgeons at Bryn Mawr medical specialist office:

Dr. Mac Farlane

Dr. Gober, skin cancer doctor

Dr. Halpern, surgeon

I would like to thank the doctors of the neurosurgeon team who saved my life:

Dr. Ravi Madineni, surgeon

Dr. Abby Yochin, physician assistant

Dr. Peter Parsells, physician assistant

Rose Mc Devitt, office manager

Dr. Margolies (neurologist) at Lankenau Hospital

Dr. Scharf, surgeon at Lankenau Hospital

I would like to thank all the doctors and nurses at the following hospitals:

Delaware County Hospital

Fox Chase Cancer Center

Bryn Mawr Hospital

Lankenau Hospital

Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Malvern, Pennsylvania

Dunwoody Rehab Newtown Square, Pennsylvania

ICUs at the hospitals

I'd like to thank them for their kindness and understanding and also their professionalism. Thank you, and God bless all of you.

On Monday, Memorial Day, May 25, 2020, I was watching the TV. The show I was watching on the TV was a rerun from the previous year because of coronavirus. On stage were Gary Sinise, Joe Mantegna, and Sam Elliot; as I watched the entire show, these three men gave me the encouragement to write this book. I want to thank all three of you for this. God bless. The next day, I contacted my doctors to send me all my reports on my medical history for the last twenty-five years of my life. When the doctor reports started to come in, I got started to write this book. I called the book, The Walking Miracle.

The Beginning of my Medical History

Starting on Saturday morning in October 1987, my customer asked me to fix her window and screen on the side of her house on the first floor. Her nephew installed her AC unit on the second-floor window the day before. As I was adjusting the first-floor window, I heard a crack. As I looked up, the AC unit on the second floor fell out. I used my right arm to block the AC unit from hitting me on the head.

Severed arm at the bicep, I fell to the ground and looked at my arm. I put a tourniquet on my arm, and then the customer came out. She saw what had happened to me, and she was terrified. I told her