Everyone’s recovery journey is different, and adapting to life after stroke varies from person to person. No journey is the same. Feel free to share your experiences, the highs and lows.
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Hi. Im new to this forum. I;m a stroke survivor and after nearly a year, I’m still struggling to remain positive. Does anyone have any advice? I worry about:getting the function back in my left hand and arm, about returning to work (I desperately want to but it’s looking increasingly unlkely)… I TRY TO WORK THROOUGH A DAILY ROUTINE OF EXERCISES BUT SOMETIMES LACK THE DETERMINATION. I don’t have anyone close to hand to support me as I am living temporarily with my elderly mother who has dementia.I’m looking for somewhere else to live. I’m separated from my husband and am starting divorce procrrdings. My mental health is at rock bottom and I’m struggling to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Has anyone else had similar experience and did you get throough it? What advice would you offer please?
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I’ve had many epiphanies and many tight squeezes. If I had had a stroke and my brain wasn’t damaged it might have dealt with the whole thing differently, but because my damaged brain is trying to reconcile itself, the paradox is clear to me. Trying to assess my damage and yet the self that is trying to asses it is damaged. The only way I can describe it, as an analogy, it is like a damaged robot attempting to fix a damaged robot. The lows have been debilitating and the highs have been enlightening but only, always, through the lens of my challenged mind, and I write this with my dog visiting for a few days and who now has to share a meagre Queen sized bed with me 
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