larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: Chapter 18: A Child's Insight
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2014/05/chapter-18-childs-insight.html
Monday, May 19, 2014. Chapter 18: A Child's Insight. I love their perspective on things. And they can always make me smile. Things are not quite so hard after you’ve talked to a child. This last Sunday while walking in the church hallway, a little girl asked me,. 8220;Why are you wearing a glove? 8220;My hand has a problem. It doesn’t work right. And the glove helps it feel better,” I replied. She looked at me, and you could see her thinking about this. Then she gave me a big smile. It made me smile :).
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: Chapter 17: Challenges, Part 2
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2014/02/chapter-17-challenges-part-2.html
Sunday, February 23, 2014. Chapter 17: Challenges, Part 2. Earlier, I mentioned that there are two main challenges I face from my stroke. I talked about the emotional anxiety and just dealing with sensory overload all too often. After months of putting it off, I am ready to share my other elephant. A couple weeks after I had my stroke, I started noticing pain in my left arm. It goes from my fingertips to my shoulder. In fact, my arm and hand feel cold to me all the time! I couldn’t lift my arm. He wasn&#...
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: December 2010
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html
Monday, December 13, 2010. Chapter 3: In the Fog. Sunday, February 28, 2010. I awoke Sunday morning in the fog—or at least that’s how it felt. Everything was surreal. Here’s how my new reality started: going to the bathroom first thing in the morning. I had to beep for the nurse to come in and detach me from all my many wires. Then, she helped me walk to the bathroom and showed me the little bar I could hold on to. I definitely wanted to do this by myself. But, what an ordeal! It was so good to see him!
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: April 2012
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2012_04_01_archive.html
Monday, April 30, 2012. I think with any challenge or trial in our lives that it is important to look for the good things that are happening. No time in life is a complete disaster. Though I admit that there have times that it has been hard for me to find the good. I've had to look a little harder and pray more often to find the Lord's blessings in my challenges. I have had a few health improvements from my stroke. Yes, it’s true, I have had some positive in the health area too. I don't know if the migra...
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: February 2012
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2012_02_01_archive.html
Monday, February 27, 2012. Part 2: My New Reality. Chapter 9: All Better? 8220;You’re all better now, right? That question always takes me by surprise. How should I answer that? I suspect people want me to say yes. I know I look. All better. But, I’m far from all better in many ways. To me, this is an awkward question. That leaves me with sharing my struggles with those who really want to know and coming to accept the fact that most people will just assume I’m all better. I have learned how to respond to...
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: April 2011
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2011_04_01_archive.html
Saturday, April 2, 2011. Chapter 8: Blame It On the Brain. I had a hemorrhagic stroke, or as I refer to it, a brain bleed. A vein in my brain ruptured and started to bleed out in my brain. This causes a lot of damage to the brain. And logically, the more you bleed the more damage that happens. I’m told that mine was a moderate bleed. Looking at the scan, it looked like the size of the bleed was about the width of a quarter. Sometimes I think that’s not too big, not too bad, it could have been worse.
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: Chapter 15: Bizarre Experience
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2012/11/chapter-15-bizarre-experience.html
Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Chapter 15: Bizarre Experience. I mentioned earlier that since the stroke, I get overwhelmed easily. Sensory overload. But, I also continue to try to not give up on things I enjoy. Keep on trying, right? This lead to an experience I won’t try again for a while. Larry and Devin got tickets to go to see Brian Regan’s comedy concert. Devin invited his girlfriend, Lisa, and Larry wanted me to go. I really wanted to go, too. I enjoy Brian Regan, who doesn’t? It wasn’t music.
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: November 2012
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2012_11_01_archive.html
Wednesday, November 21, 2012. Chapter 15: Bizarre Experience. I mentioned earlier that since the stroke, I get overwhelmed easily. Sensory overload. But, I also continue to try to not give up on things I enjoy. Keep on trying, right? This lead to an experience I won’t try again for a while. Larry and Devin got tickets to go to see Brian Regan’s comedy concert. Devin invited his girlfriend, Lisa, and Larry wanted me to go. I really wanted to go, too. I enjoy Brian Regan, who doesn’t? It wasn’t music.
larryandcathy.blogspot.com
Larry and Cathy: January 2013
http://larryandcathy.blogspot.com/2013_01_01_archive.html
Sunday, January 6, 2013. Chapter 16: Re-train Your Brain.maybe. Since my stroke, as I learned how to walk again, as I learned how to use my arm again, as I learned how to live in my new life, I was often told we are re-training your brain. The pathways that knew how to do these activities had been severed. So we needed to make new pathways. For the most part, this training has worked. But, I guess after 46 years of sending messages through one pathway, my brain sometimes forgets about the new pathways.
