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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My brain surgeon emailed me: “I saw your films. They look fine, although I think you’ve aged a bit. No evidence of vascular malformation. No evidence of life on Mars.
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After 5 calls, a certified letter, an email, faxes, a talk with a supervisor and several talks with a manager, my health care company admitted that they made a mistake and will reprocess everything.
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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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One famous brain in neuroscience is that of Monsieur Leborgne. In 1861 he had a stroke that caused him to lose speech but not other skills.
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When I was in the hospital, my friends decided I was not a teddy bear type. Therefore I received a stuffed animal kangaroo, flamingo, ostrich, three-foot-long rhinoceros
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