Odd lost language: I was describing a terry cloth headband. It came out teriyaki headband.

I had my brain surgery at the end of June. The night of July 4th, I watched the Independence Day fireworks from the roof deck of the hospital.

If you only have one working hand, you put lots of items in your mouth: zippers that won't budge, bottles that don't unscrew, tangled necklaces. Bite!

One week, my hand therapist decided that my whole right arm was rotating inward. She made me a full length plaster cast that held my arm in the correct direction.

“If the average person talks about sex 10% of the time," says my friend Aarti, "you were about 30%." My conversations right after my stroke were often racy.