Borrowed from my Blog:
Bobbi's Blog – Medium
Working through those first days the answers didn’t come in an instant.
It took a little while to be able to properly address the challenge.
Questions still remain to tempt me onward.
When I was disabled by a stroke, after two months in hospital, I started to write on this forum hosted by the Stroke Association. I began to find friends and a direction as I shared my experience.
Stroke is something that arrives with little warning. It is not something one is prepared for. It isolates and separates. It creates difficulties. It is all questions with little in the way of satisfying answers.
One spends valuable time finding a way through what it throws up but eventually one begins to get a hold on one’s life again.
The experience is worth sharing. Those recently affected can make use of it as they themselves struggle to find a way forward. That fellow feeling and peer support is what I hope I am pointing towards in my writing.
All those affected by stroke want to know how to deal with things. That is not just those who suffered the brain damage but also partners, family, friends, work colleagues, the medical profession, carers, politicians and the general public.
Who better to describe the miserable, traumatic, life wrecking, destructive event than one who is actually going through it all?
I hasten to add I am not living in misery. Life has its ups and downs, I enjoy a little fun. There is a tomorrow and there is good reason to want to be there.
I have something to say and will try to share it as best as I am able.
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I wrote the piece above as part of a writing project in my blog on Medium
Maybe you fancy trying it too?
It is available now also it is free and open to all.
Writing helps me, maybe it can help you?
Read about the Word Clouds which I used to create the graphics on this page here:
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Stroke Guy - not a pretty sight - runs out of words
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