My First Step Forward
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My first step here will be a very happy hello. :happydance: I had my stroke last year the day after 4th of July. Bilateral Cerebellar Infarct. I was 43, just helped close down all the stores in our city (which were the only ones in the state) where I had been working for close to 10 years. I was the bread winner as you call it in my home. Active, feeling the best about myself probably ever, looking forward to a future that I felt could only get better. Prime of my life I guess. Even with past ups and downs I was finally feeling comfortable in my skin, with myself, and being around lots of people and those I love. I've always been a people person...I talked...a lot...and to everyone I met who came through my store. I was the Assistant Customer Service Manager at a great (different) grocery store. We as a store really believed in customer service and tried our best to excel at it. Seems like such an ordinary job, nothing corporate, but I met so many people. So many different, interesting, fabulous people with their own stories. Their life stories were fascinating to me. I live in a city full of musicians or anything that has to do with music. We have Record Label Companies here, celebrity musicians, lots of Colleges and Universities, some of the best Medical Facilities in the country, a vast range of different people from all around the world. I made many acquaintances and built many many relationships with people, with their families, friends, and neighbors. I watched once pregnant mommies come in to my store with their newborns and watched those babies grow. Congratulated those same faces when they started Kindergarten. Congratulated others as they graduated high school or college. There have been so many different types of Congratulations I have shared with others over the years. That was me just a little over a year ago...
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