I’ve learned to get comfortable being uncomfortable and not to seek comfort in unhealthy things, but rather, in things that help me grow.
Category: Stroke
Sense of Sobriety
With increased awareness of my senses in sobriety, without the numbing effect of alcohol, I feel from beginning, through the middle, to the end. I am learning to pause and look back over my shoulder to say, “I just did that, and it didn’t kill me.” The more I feel from beginning to end, the more I welcome feelings and the more confident I am in my ability to handle each and every one of them.
From Patient to Student
Frequently I am drawing from my experiences and becoming and recovering alcoholic to what I have been facing recovering from my stroke. In both cases, my life reached the point of unmanageability. There must be a profound change in mentality from patient to student. In both cases my body my brain and my heart we’re […]
My Ischemic Stroke
I had a painful clot in my arm after my first COVID vaccine, and I had an ischemic stroke four days after my second COVID vaccine.