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!
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That's aphasia for you: sometimes your words come to you 3 minutes later.
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Up until the 19th century, Western theologians thought the brain was where the Christian soul was.
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A man noticed I was disabled. He also saw that one of my shoes was untied. He offered to tie my shoe for me.
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My aunt says that as she has gotten older, more strangers smile at her in the street, as if they have been taught "old people need to be cheered up because their life must suck."
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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.
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My friend Helen said that since my stroke, I was sometimes rude to waiters.
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My friends say that since my stroke, I laugh louder. What else has changed?
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Many stroke victims purchase two identical pairs of shoes in different sizes. This is so they will fit their good foot into a normal shoe, and their cloddy ankle brace foot into a shoe 2 sizes bigger.
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At parties I have become very good at concealing my stroke. It's not because I want to hide it, but I don't want to explain it in the middle of a party
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As a general rule, friends don't set up friends with disabled friends.
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Your healthy side is tall and straight. Your stroke side is all sagging angles.
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