Ministroke - Recovery

Someone wise once said that everyone has 83 problems.

Recovery from the ministroke has been a daily walk.  My life, how I manage everything has been built by my ability to do 20 things at one time.  I would consider that I could partition my brain and just have a conversation while I sent someone an email, typed a post to a client, researched something of interest, and answered volunteers questions.

With this stroke for over 3 months my ability to focus on more than one thing at a time was absent.  If I tried to think of two things I would forget both of them.  Just this last month my ability to multitask has returned. When I caught myself doing it, I celebrated.

I have some a great blessings in my life, things are there when I need them the most.  The day I came back home from the hospital and 50 year old Dr from Los Altos who specialized in stroke recovery suddenly appeared at my home.  She helped me in ways that still empower my life today.  With a stroke, you are not supposed to push through Neurofatigue, you have to rest.  You suddenly have permission to take care of yourself.

100s of people come through my home every year.  I try to create a very healthy space for them, in our very rustic setting.  My agency often has 50 clients at the same time (far less than the 125 we used to manage but what is wealth?).  My days since the farm have had almost zero time for myself.  Absent are the days I would spend at Montesuenos contemplating sunsets.  Alive are the days filled with lots of very special persons.

I have learned a lot about myself at the farm.  Living so close to people you can really catch ways you can improve the way you relate to people or in my case the way I think people relate to me.  Having so many people say such kind things has brough