When I started to read this book, it made me cry, Maybe just the way I felt that day. I finished it today. An excellent book. Julia Fox has described perfectly what we go through as stroke survivors. She brought back memories I had forgotten. One of them is the feeling you have when you realize that you don't want to stay that way(handicapped)and you try anything you have heard of to get better. In my case, I tried acupuncture, a faith healer and biofeedback. Even when I didn't believe, I didn't take any chances, I tried anyway. Then one day, the doctor in charge of physio therapist(I forget what he's called) told me they couldn't do anything for me anymore and I believed him so I stopped working to get better until 20 years later when I met Andr