BEING REAL WITH ONES SELF STROKE SURVIVOR

Not being able to walk since my stroke September 17th 2010. I often find myself sitting in the car while Rebecca runs into the store.

I watch intently, as people  walk and move so freely, but it seems like so long ago, in another life.

I then realized they have a brain clarity I do not have at this time.

I can remember when I first had my stroke, I was so out of touch with what happened to me what a cataclysmic effect stroke had on me.

I would not let Rebeea sell my bad ass Dodge 2500 diesel truck because I'd be driving again in 6 months! Bless her awesome heart she held on to it for long as she could. Until we had to sell it to survive. It's now been four years.

I don't have the mental clarity it would take to drive! I'd carine off a car and wonder what that bump was.

So being real with myself I told Rebecca I will not be able to drive until that clarity returns,

In her normal stellar self she says "Just you being able to realize that means it's returning.

You know she's 100% correct!

I'm recovering slowly but recovering none the less!

The only times I ever got hurt (been many) is when I wasn't being realistic with myself.

We as stroke survivors we need to be realistic with ourselves and our limitations. No matter how humbling!

We will recover how ever slight, however long, We will recover!