My hand therapist told me a story of two stroke ladies. One had a bad right hand and one had a bad left hand.
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Boston has lots of snow and ice. If you aren't totally steady on your feet, you can trip. A lot. Boom!
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Before this all happened, I did lots of athletic activities. I had just started karate when my stroke happened.
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Happiness.
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A little inspiration: This year's Nobel Prize winner in literature has aphasia, or speech loss.
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My friends took me ice skating. I had trouble using skates, but they glided on either side of me and off we went, very slowly. There was another disabled kid on the ice.
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I had a Mohawk adventure in L.A.
Read MoreAt the hospital they had me wearing elastic thigh-highs. These were not sexy. The medical stockings were white, with a horizontal weave that made me look like a mummy.
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A few months after my stroke, my speech was better. Then the problem was not understanding but getting words out of my head.
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Because I had to spend so much time in the gym at first, I began to listen to recorded books there to pass the time. Soon I had rules about this art form:
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"The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." - Mark Twain
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There are all kinds of athletic equipment for the disabled. At my rehab hospital, they had bikes that didn't need arms to steer.
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