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Are you certified? What
kind of training have you
had?”
Cascardo said she under-
stands how some stroke
patients have difficulty
with physical, occupation-
al and speech therapy, as
Rosenberg experienced.
“It’
s an experience where a
person isn’
t able to calibrate
their own mobility,” she said.
“It can be frustrating and
embarrassing for the person.
If you have a novice or an
inexperienced therapist, the
(recovery) outcome is going
to be radically different.”
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Rosenberg is a proven trail-
blazer. In business, she was
the first female vice president
of fashion marketing at J.L.
Hudson Co., creator of the
department store’
s wildly pop-
ular Santa Bear promotion
and Lifetime Honorary Chair
of the Detroit Institute of
Arts’
Fash Bash runway show.
As an author and conve-
ner, she excels at bringing
people with differences
together to find a common
thread they can use to weave
something new together —
as she has with Reuniting
the Children of Abraham, a
peace initiative that uses cre-
ative arts to build bridges of
understanding between Jews,
Christians and Muslims.
As one who uses her pos-
itive energy and momentum
to effect change, she said she
expects to experience a full
recovery and that she is, by
her own estimation, 95 per-
cent there. The only things
she can’
t do yet are swirl a
pot of spaghetti or use chop-
sticks. She has adjusted her
diet to eliminate unnecessary
fat, sugar and refined car-
bohydrates. And, she allows
herself to take naps, which
are essential to her recovery,
she said.
She also has drawn upon
her own spiritual communi-
ty to guide her through her
recovery. She and her hus-
band of 53 years, Howard,
belong to Temple Israel in
West Bloomfield. She said
after her stroke, five rabbis
from the temple came to see
her and that friends from
the Christian, Jewish and
Muslim community have
provided emotional support.
“You know God will pay
attention when Christian,
Jewish and Muslim people
are praying for this Jewish
girl,” she joked. “Without
the prayers, (my recovery)
wouldn’
t have been as fast.”
Moving forward,
Rosenberg said it’
s her goal
to get health insurance
companies on board to pay
for alternative therapies
like those she uses so that
everyone can experience the
health benefits.
She said she also finds it
meaningful that what has
helped her recover are three
therapeutic methods created
by Jewish people.
“What an amazing way
to combat anti-Semitism by
showing how these methods
heal,” she said.
And about her own inten-
tions to continue to live a
fully functional life guided
by purpose, she said: “To get
anything done, you have to
have passion and creativity. If
we can address what we need
and if we can use creativity,
there is no problem we can’
t
solve.”
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