When they sent me home from rehab August of 2006, I had no idea, how I was going to survive. I was basically alone, with my husband working, renvating and spending time with his sick parents. My kids were in school, working and living their ives. No one Iknew,who could speak, had had a stroke and none of my friends understood. Also, I am in a community that supports NO stroke, support group(which I hope to change) Iwent to the internet and found strokenet. evemnthough I could not chat due to an issue with my machine, I still felt support in reading everyone elses comments. I learned aloot and it helped make mw feel less alien. Since then, I have been working on my life and got really busy after I took inventory of what I COULD do. I volunteer, I take aquafit ,line-dnceand MAKING AN EFFORT to start a walking group. I am also writig several books. One deals with the lay-stroke person's tips about living and doing things with only one arm/hand , one spastic leg and scrambled hearing. I am a very impatient individual, which forced me to invent ways to do things myself rather than wait for help. some of them are pretty wild but they get the stuff done