Personal stories, experiences, and reflections on my recovery after a stroke.
In my previous blog, Month 3 of My Recovery – Step by Step, I shared how my recovery was going at that time. Now, another month has passed, and I notice that things are changing again. Busy Environments and Sensory…
Sometimes you have a plan in your head and expect everything to go smoothly. You get started, take a few steps and feel good about having made progress. Until you discover that something along the way has turned out differently…
If I make progress by just one step today, that is progress too. Yesterday was simply a difficult day. I did not want to take on too much at once, but in the end, that is exactly what I did.…
There are moments in life when your plans suddenly change. Not because you chose them to, but because life takes a different direction. For me, that happened because of a stroke. Since then, I have been rebuilding my life. Sometimes…
The third month of my recovery has come to an end. Looking back, I realise that this month has asked quite a lot of me. There were moments when I thought things were getting better and better. But there were…
Sometimes something that worked perfectly yesterday suddenly stops working. You try again. You check everything. Maybe you change something and try once more. And yet the problem remains. That’s what happened to me recently with my firewall. At first, it…
Moving forward step by step, even when things don’t go the way I want. Recovering after a stroke means more to me than working on my physical recovery. It also means learning to deal with the fact that things sometimes…
The second month of my recovery has come to an end. During the first month, most of my attention was focused on everything that had happened and the realisation that my life had changed from one moment to the next.…
Every step forward counts, even when things don’t go according to plan. When I look back at the past two and a half months, I’m quite proud of what I’ve managed to achieve. Not because I can do everything the…
Yesterday, I started speech therapy. It’s a new step in my recovery, and another moment that reminds me that progress often begins with small steps. Since my stroke, I have been rebuilding my life during recovery. That doesn’t just mean…
