Stroke Survival is a very hard mission to handle alone or in a group because so many things can bring you down and not much to lift you up.... The human brain can only process so much and remember it was affected by the stroke too..... So I think time has to pass and healing has to happen over time to process our healing process with what we got left in our bodies and brain....

Therefore we can't just sit down and say O'well, we must stay active and do all we can for our bodies to heal over time, a very long time too.... I'm coming up on 12 years as a stroke survivor and I'm now realizing my body will never be the same as before the stroke so I got time to learn a few more things about stroke survival, in the long run......

I have to keep realizing I'm alive and I got some movement in my body, sure, not what I once had but moving just the same to some degree.... On the other hand 12 years after the stroke I'm 12 years older at 74 now so that in it self means my system and my body has aged...... Just to think I spent 22 years in the Army by joining right after high school in the summer of 1958 at 17 years old...

I retired in 1979 at 38 years of age unless I got my math wrong so aging has taken a small toll on my active life as it does for everybody.... As I previously stated in a prior blog I got married in 1960 for my first time to my high school sweetheart whom passed in 1998, we had two kids together, a girl and a boy....

Now I'm in my fourth marriage for the last 17 happy years of my life.... So the stroke was definitely a surprise to me and to her as well...... We will be together for the remainder of our lives until death do us part.... Now then we are trying to keep moving forward in our lives not knowing what the future holds for each of us but knowing our final resting places are paid in full at the National cemetery here at Killeen, Texas and Fort Hood military Post.....

Her son and daughter will see that we go to our final resting places.... He serves as our Pastor's aide in our church as we all have been faithful members for a very long time now.... That's all for this Blog blessings to all of you......