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The Day My World Changed


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The Day My World Changed started just like any other

I went to work and did my job and ate my usual supper

I sat outside along the bank of the beautiful creek where I lived in peace

Petting my cats as they chased their tails and caught bugs flying through the

August air.

I saw my nephews and chatted with my sister as the night began to fall

We tucked the boys into their beds and retired to the living room

I watched TV with my sister until the hour grew late

We both had jobs that started early so I headed towards my place

It was just across the trailer park from where my sister lived

And I enjoyed the sounds of night and the creek that soothed my ears

I stayed up until the cats were fed and started for my bed

I didn't notice anything except a pounding in my head

I figured that I was too long in the sun and got a glass of water

Went to my room and laid myself down in quiet blissful slumber

 

But sometime in the black of night I suffered a lightening strike

A stroke had come into my head and stole my carefree life

 

The morning came and went to noon and still I did not wake

They say I answered my front door so no one thought it strange

That I was wearing all my clothes that winter cold required

Or that I was dragging my left leg or that I was listing to one side

Until the phone call the boss made as he told me later on

That I was not making any sense and he thought he'd better holler

The ambulance came with my boss in tow my family came though I didn't know

They took me to the hospital where my stroke was captured quick

They said I was young and would be okay

They said you'll heal real quick.

 

And that day they watched the atomic blast of fallout from my stroke

As it robbed me of my job, my freedom and my home.

 

That was a day I will never remember, though

I'm told what happened by those who were there

That I did not know them or where I lived

I couldn't tell them my name or my phone

All I could do was stare blankly at them

And tell them I only remember the headache I had

And how cold I had felt

 

And that I survived a stroke.

 

LBW

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Hi Katz, just wanted to tell you that I thought this was very beautiful. After your description I feel like I saw it all. Please keep posting anything you write.

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