My favourite post of the week

[ManjiB]

Reading this post made me so happy that I feel I must share it.
I don’t do social media, this forum is the closest I have come to it, but I believe it is called re-tweeting or something. It might even be called something else as I believe Twitter is now X and so tweeting is now Xing, so maybe this is now a re-X?

Anyway, here it is, my favourite post of the week ..

Your recovery

I’ve been speaking to someone at work today and it’s just over 14 years since he had a stroke. It was then called a mini stroke. It took away his ability to walk without a limp on his right side. Drs at that time said he would have it for rest of his life. Medication was different then also and a lack of physio at the time. So what did he do. He said I wasn’t going to let this bloody thing stop me from having a normal life. And he pushed himself to the limit. He said I took the bull by the horn…

[EmeraldEyes]

Yep, that’s just what I’ve been doing since I had my stroke. And I certainly wouldn’t be as fit and able as I am now if I’d relied on the experts. It’s not really a condition that anyone else can do much about. If you’re not prepared to put the effort in yourself, then all the physio assistance in the world won’t get you moving. You have to want it badly enough to wake up those neurons to get to work building new bridges to make new connections. If you can’t be bothered, neither will your neurons be.

Lorraine

[ManjiB]

Thanks Lorraine - this is what I call hitting the head on the nail

[EmeraldEyes]

Just reading it back back, it does sound a bit blunt But then so is a stroke

Lorraine

[Jbob]

I haven’t been reading much or checking in past few weeks or so as I wasn’t so good but reading this pretty much is the conversation I had with myself then the doctor who told me “sir you have had a stroke". It’s mine to own and recover from, because I am more lucky and mainly my attitude to life too is if I’m going down may as well go down swinging that’s what got me through rehabilitating my hand and arm - not 100% but 100% better than if I didn’t try. I still always appreciate how lucky I’ve been.