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Quicken
Loans
founder
Gilbert
back to
work
after
stroke
apnews.com
DETROIT
-
Quicken
Loans
founder
and
Chairman
Dan
Gilbert
is
slowly
returning
to work
eight
months
after
suffering
a
stroke.
Gilbert,
58,
returned
to his
Detroit
office
early
this
year.
He’s
there
one or
two days
a week,
using a
wheelchair
and
accompanied
by a
service
dog
named
Cowboy.
He also
spends
three or
four
hours a
day
working
with
physical
and
occupational
therapists
at his
home.
“When
you have
a
stroke,
here’s
the
problem
with it:
Everything
is hard.
Everything,”
Gilbert
told
Crain’s
Detroit
Business
in his
first
interview
since
the
stroke.
“Like
you wake
up,
getting
out of
bed is
hard,
going to
the
bathroom
is hard,
sitting
down
eating
at a
table is
hard.
You name
it. You
don’t
get a
break.
You’re
like
trapped
in your
own
body.”
Gilbert
is
scheduled
to give
his
first
public
speech
since
the May
25
stroke
this
Friday
at the
Crain’s
Newsmakers
of the
Year
luncheon
in
Detroit.
It’s
a change
of pace
for the
hard-charging
executive,
who also
owns the
NBA’s
Cleveland
Cavaliers
and
several
other
sports
teams.
Right
before
his
stroke,
Gilbert
was
texting
Michigan’s
governor
about a
deal to
get
long-term
funding
for road
repairs.
Gilbert
was
hosting
a party
just
before
Memorial
Day when
his
vision
seemed
suddenly
blurry.
His wife
and a
physician
friend
convinced
him to
go to
the
hospital
after he
started
showing
other
signs of
a
stroke,
including
facial
asymmetry,
arm
drift
and
speech
difficulty.
Gilbert
said he
had a
blood
clot in
his
carotid
artery
that was
cutting
off the
blood
supply
to his
brain.
Doctors
implanted
seven
stents
inside
his
carotid
artery
to open
the
blood
vessel.
“If
that
artery
was
blocked
more
minutes
than it
was, it
would
have
been
much
worse,”
Gilbert
said.
Gilbert
spent
eight
weeks at
a
rehabilitation
center
in
Chicago
last
summer.
He is
able to
walk
with a
cane but
still
struggles
to move
his left
arm.
Gilbert
said his
current
priority
is the
construction
of a
skyscraper
in
downtown
Detroit.
His real
estate
company,
Bedrock
Detroit,
broke
ground
on the
building
in 2017.
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