I’ve written before about my curiosity on how this stroke has and will change me and the lessons I will learn from this entire experience. The reality is that I am physically changed–there is a dead spot in my brain. Of course I’m recuperating and healing and finding new paths around that oxygen [...]
Today was the 1 month anniversary of my stroke. I read what I wrote that day, and it’s a weird touching post. At the time I thought what I’d written made sense, but now I see it barely makes sense at times.
A friend of mine read it today, and I remarked, [...]
My brain is sending out death knells–every sound is loud and brash and every thought slippery. A thought is in my head for a second before it skitters away.
Today was a hard day.
These days, a hard day is really obvious. For instance, I don’t remember the thought that made me start writing here. [...]
What a day–and it isn’t anywhere near over yet. This is a day of highs that made me feel like I was completely back and in a better form, and lows that made me feel like the dirt you see above…and now I’ve come home, hoping for the first time since my stroke that [...]
I have an entire day void of plans ahead of me–it is an unexpected blank. For many people this is quite a thrill. For me, it’s a dilemma–for I am the queen of boredom these days, and try to book 1-2 activities a day (either meeting a friend and/or an errand to run). [...]
The deficit in my brain after the stroke? Short term memory. (Thank you thalamus!) The first couple days after my stroke, my mind was like a sieve–I could barely remember what doctors had told me five minutes after they’d left the room. “What did they say they think I have?” [...]
Folks, I went to Best Buy this afternoon to try and buy some DVDs (movies, and television shows as so many of you suggested) to relieve my post-stroke boredom. What did I run into? Total chaos.
Then I realized I was totally overwhelmed by all the writing on all of the spines of all [...]
Not too long ago, but what seems ages ago, I made a decision to start a diary in shorthand gah stroke burp wrong word longhand. I searched far and wide for my favorite notebook, a moleskine. Not too long ago, but what seems ages ago, I started writing in this moleskine–things I could [...]
Above is a model of a brain, viewed in my neurologist’s office. In the center of the brain is the thalamus–that’s what got hit during my stroke. The thalamus is associated with crucial tasks like memory and intuition; simultaneously, it’s sort of a hub and connected to other parts of the brain. [...]
Okay, I’ve become a couch potato these days–my doctor has forbade me to exercise and I cannot read…so there’s the television. I can’t even work at work that often (3 hours a week is my limitation)–gah, I am boring myself. Unbelievable.
I must say–there is a HELL of a lot of “reality tv” these days, and [...]
Short post, coming through! Excuse me, pardon me…
Every once in awhile, I go through my dashboard on wordpress and look at all the search terms that bring people to this page. The following search terms caught my eye and got me to nearly burst into laughter (I’m at home alone, it’s weird to laugh when [...]
This is an important post, and one that I have been waiting to write until I was well enough to articulate. Not that I’m all that articulate now, but the feelings are welling up in me and I just need to put them out now, despite my dis/inabilities.
This post is about friendships and illness [...]
