A Stroke And The Recovery Process Then Moving On With My Life!
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Well I been on this site now for a long time hoping I have learned a few things about strokes and the recovery process from so many members who came here just as I did not knowing what to expect next. I want to believe I may have helped a few of them in talking about the stroke and the recovery process that many of them knew nothing about.
When you are into your first therapies the therapist just don't give you much information about the recovery process. Seems like when you asked them a question their answer was it depends and nothing for sure if you would even get better than what you are now.
You sure couldn't base your life on what they had to say about if you would survive at all and how life would be for you in months ahead! Well they are still the same way in their manner of talking with you about strokes and recoveries.
I'm in therapy now and I may as well not ask any of them how they feel my outcome will be in a few months. Therapy does help you maintain the body functions to a degree and recovery continues probably for a life time. How much better we will be any given year in the future just depends. Therefore I have decided to survive as long as possible being able to do all I can with the body I got left
We all must realize a part of the brain has suffered an attack causing a side of the body to become paralyzed and almost non usable. With that we must be thankful that it's not as worse as it could be in many cases. On the other hand if we got by with no paralysis we can be very thankful. Then comes the speech problems that strokes carry too and again if we escaped having any problem we can be thankful again.
My main goal at this point in my life after the stroke is being thankful I had the wife that stayed right by my side from day one and has been for the whole time. A stroke survivor or not we all will depart this life one day as our names are called from the rolls therefore I have decided to live all I can with what I have left for all of that time and not complain any more.
There is always someone someplace that could be in a different shape of mind and suffering with a different kind of situation in their lives. I say that because I came back from Vietnam on a flight lying on my back while others didn't come back and still others didn't get up any more from their backs. That was such an unpopular war on foreign soil that makes me feel like I have been to hell and back!
Strokes will continue to happen and people will continue to be affected in many ways for many years to come. One day we may know more about strokes and the causes to perhaps prevent many of them especially for the younger generations! That's my prayer!
I probably will not post or Blog much in the coming months as I have said to myself when I reach ten years in recovery I think I will have said all I know to say in helping others who survived a stroke. I'm certainly no authority just a survivor myself surviving on what I was told to do to get better in life.
I'm now at that point in life I can be very thankful for everything I have accomplished and lived to tell about it. My life hasn't all been bad just some stormy times but by and large I made it though that phase hoping from hence forth I can live a comfortable life on a very low key.
I will always trust in the Lord for guidance and be thankful in every sense of the word. That being said maybe one day I will try going back to get my masters degree and once again trying to help people in other areas of life who need the guidance!
I will stick my head in once in a while to read a blog or two!!
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