Today marks my three year anniversary of my stroke.No flowers,no cake,no anniversary dinner.Just the understading my life will never be the same.I try to look at the good things.
Three years ago I was in the hospital with tubes in me and I could not talk.Now I can talk but my aphasia is there.I can say with first hand knowledge it could be far worse.
Two years ago I started to dive again and I could go to the store I could drive to Brooks.That made a of world of difference.
One year ago I moved into our new house and I started to walk. A lot.
So I try to focus on what I gained(new friends,healthy diet) and not what I lost.
I do not remember having my stroke. My thought was I in a hospital,my arms are tied to bed and I do not recall how I got here.NOT AGAIN!! Forty years prior I found myself in the similar situaton after being hit by a car.But I knew this far worse.Somewhere off in the distance the song High Hopes my Frank Sinatra played over and over.I am a fan of old blue eyes but for love of God !! When the nurse finally checked in on me I wanted to say TURN OFF THAT XXXXX SONG!! But I could not and thats when I got scared. When they told me I had ashasia my first reaction was what is that.Like most people I did not what asphasia is. Well now I do and with help my family I will get though is. I still hate that song.
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