“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.
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Sometimes I can tell someone has noticed my disability and is staring.
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"You are so young!" people say when they find out about my stroke. Miss Manners does not have a good answer to them. "Yes?" "Thank you?" "You are so old?"
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After my stroke my face was a little weaker on one side. I was given pages of pictures, facial expressions to copy. Grimace! Grin!
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At a wedding reception, I danced around. When I stopped, another guest said "I didn't think you would dance."
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Here are some words that I said right after my stroke: What I was trying to say: outpatient What I actually said: amphibian
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Question: How do you put on a necklace with a complicated clasp, using just one hand?
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When I see so many images of chaos and destruction, it makes my problems seem terribly small.
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he crystal ball is murky at present. Will report back.
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"Look at my eyes. I said, my eyes."
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Often it is hard to feel glamorous when you are disabled. Sometimes it is hard to feel glamorous when you are not disabled.
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A month or so after brain surgery, whenever I looked at a large white space, like a blank wall, for a moment it would be covered with scrawls
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