My Name is Jim and 2 weeks ago after returning from the road and a long streak of hot weather and work I had a stroke. I had come to find out that I had lost 30 pounds in just a few weeks. After being life flighted to hospital I am home now and in rehab.

The DOT says in their regs that a stroke patient is not allowed to drive a cmv for a period of a year and then undergo a full evaluation by a neurologist.. My fund raising is for funds to allow me to get my feet under me and keep my home. It is a very strange thing to work at the same type of job for 25 years and then *Poof...it all goes away. Here I am under federal mandate of no work due to the medical condition and regulations to protect the motoring public. That part I understand totally.

I will be applying for disability but that sometimes takes many weeks and most of what I have left in the bank can be called for just for one month's of mortgage and living.

I live at home with my wife and 4 legged children, one of whom alerted to my condition and made a lot of racket. My wife Shawne saw I was having troubles and called 911.