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Inflection point in life - six months since my stroke

Published Apr 21, 2023

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Six months ago yesterday I had a massive stroke but luckily I happened to have a friend coming over a few minutes later; he called 911 and paramedics got me to the hospital in under an hour from the time of the stroke. Things changed and they will never be the same again even if I do recover my speech well enough to recognize my own voice again - Im working on it. I was a member of TN before the stroke and I used videos from the Naked Yoga School for exercise among other things. Their videos are certainly not porn, but arent always useful for me in particular either so I had to sort through them to find ones that were, In addition to therapy, I have been consuming books and videos about strokes and aphasia, about the brain in general (Great Courses), participating in aphasia on-line groups which lead to more online resources, including an aphasia cruise next year. I started a group in TN called Stroke Survivors. I would appreciate it if you could visit it and recommend it to your friends who might be able to benefit. I also would be able to benefit from others input. Recovering from stroke is more successful the more social contacts, especially other stoke survivors, you have. Everything changed for my that day six months ago, but I am a survivor and I WILL recover.