After 4 months of medical recovery and intensive rehab. I finally was able to begin a new life. Emphasis on LIFE! After being told I would die, then you'll never walk again, I had proved the "medical experts" wrong. The man upstairs has decided I have more work to do in this life so I decided that I would work harder than I ever had and not waste this second chance. I pushed myself physically, mentally. emotionally and spiritually further than ever before!. At times, the pain was INTENSE, but all I had to do was think about what could have been and it was easy to train myself to just "suck it up" and keep working. taking baby steps, I was soon able to increase my physical workload. There were still many deficits that would be changed forever, but this just meant my life would be different, but there's THAT word again, LIFE. I have one!
Following is a small list of those changes, would never drive again due to vision problems, walk with a cane for balance, walk with a brace on left foot/leg because of severe foot drop, cannot walk and carry something because my 1 good hand had to hold the cane, no more clothes with buttons/snaps or belts , shoestrings, getting up from a crouching position or the floor required assistance, walking into things to my left because of left side neglect residual , greatly weakened stamina due to lack of exercise. Well that was just a small list of what i dealt with after returning home from the hospital. I saw it as just "speedbumps" in my recovery........ Stay tuned to my next blog to see where I'm at now and my current day to day struggle with these post-stroke affects....
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