Freedom from dependence comes when I admit complete defeat. After two years of discomfort and denial, I made the decision that I could not continue to live with the chronic pain in my head, simply ignoring it.
Category: Stroke
The Deceptive Nature of Comfort
I’ve learned to get comfortable being uncomfortable and not to seek comfort in unhealthy things, but rather, in things that help me grow.
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.