I dont know if anyone else obsesses about dates and times like I do, but I am fixated on the first anniversary of my stroke-not Mothers Day or anything else that falls around that date. I wish I could erase that date and make it as if this never happened. Today is a particularly bad day... the "other" greta would be working now, rushing around and complaining about the kids(adults now), the pets(3 dogs and a cat)the house-cooking, cleaning, paying the bills, yelling at my hubby..you know -the usual. But this greta, the now greta is obsessed about finding the differences in my face. The droop to the left side of my face that my family says they can see. The difficulty in swallowing and eating, How hard it is to put on my own clothes, to find work. The tiredness...always tired. I hope I can get used to this new greta. I do miss my other self though.