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I wanted to say a few words on the original moral support topic. I have a theory I don't know how accurate it is? But I also have struggled from the beginning to understand some of the attitudes I encountered? I think that therapist are so afraid for you to get your hopes up and then have them dashed that may try to squash any hopes that sprout up. And since it's just a little over two years since my stroke I have seen enough to understand that it is definitely hard to handle when your dreams get dashed and you realize that there is no way you're going to accomplish the goal you had set. But I still think there has to be somewhere in between where you give someone at least enough hope to at least try and I encountered a new attitude this last week that pretty much blew me away. I haven't AFO for my left ankle and my ankle started to hurt recently and through the therapist and the maker of the AFO they determined that my holding my ankle joint from moving it froze up and then when I would try and stand it would create pain in my ankle the AFO maker said that there is a new device that is dynamic and allows your ankle to move while holding your foot up so your total does not catch. And when I called my therapist for letter to be sent in with the prescription to hopefully convince Medicaid to provide me with a new device my therapist was very uncooperative and set all she could say was that when she finished treating me that I was pain free and she couldn't tell them anything else because that would not be true. So it seemed to me like she was more worried about protecting her own reputation been trying to provide guidance and support to me in my current situation

Stingray I was so happy to see your post I can't tell you how good it was to read most of what you had to say. I wanted so badly to get back on my bicycle I was a very avid biker before my stroke. And pretty much everyone has told me that my days of riding a bicycle are over. I went to our local bike shop to see what options might be available and they had a beautiful three wheel recumbent machine that only cost $1100 so that pretty much sealed the deal right there. And I'm using Dragon naturally speaking to produced this post I am blown away that you have actually regained the typing use of your left hand? How do you do it do you have feeling back? I'm getting a little more return each month but I can imagine ever typing with my left hand again let alone writing I cannot even grip the pencil or pen. I think I do have enough movement in my left wrist and hand to do some writing once I could hold the pen God bless you my brother you are indeed an encouragement to me!