After Holding Our Collective Breaths, A Sigh of Relief
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Today, being 12/27/2011, means that I stroked 1 year and 1 day ago. No one will say for sure, but I think my entiore family held their breaths all day yesterday, waiting for the worst and hoping for the best. Well, I am not writing this blog entry from a hospital bed. I came through my first anniversary without so much as a mild headache.
I don't know why everyone thought that yesterday could make or break itself, or that I could end up exactly where I was a year ago, but everyone in the family thought it, even me, even Sam.
Now, I can look back at this past year and be happy that my recovery has come so far. I am doing very well. I am driving, training my own service dog, cooking meals, basically living my life as I had pre-stroke, with a couple of compensations for some challenges that popped up with the stroke. It's been an emotional year. There have been plenty of ups and downs on the rollercoaster, but so far, so good.
So, happy first birthday to the new Lydi. She's alot like the old Lydi, but different enough to understand how quickly life can change in ways no one ever expected, and smart enough to want to live every day the best that she can.
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