Background; a few months ago at one of these support group meetings I participate in I met an older woman who worked with a friend of mine as a grandmother in one of the elementary schools here in town she told me about her first stroke while she was working in the school she knew she wasn't feeling well and she asked the students to go find the principal to help her and a student said no you have to correct our homework first.

I have not seen her at any of the support group meetings lately.

A week and a half ago while doing my volunteer work at the other hospital I ran into her she apparently has had another stroke and I said hi Gerri and she said I don't know who you are and then she said there's days I don't know who I am and then laughed.

Today at the hospital I was in the gift shop talking with one of the ladies that works there and one of the nurses from the rehab floor was pushing a wheelchair with Gerri in it and Jerry says stop stop stop she looked at me and she says I know you so I walked over and took her hand and told her my name and then ask her how she was doing and how good it was to see her and the fact that she recognized me was an amazing thing

Then she said to me I didn't know you before today.

That brief exchange was the highlight of my day and reminded me of just how our memory is impacted by strokes not that I need a reminder of that one.

That was what I needed today. What an absolute incredible blessing.

Peace, love, joy and prayers

Jay