tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520456258844139120.post5875178173979646256..comments2024-01-29T10:48:50.298-05:00Comments on My Happy Stroke: ComplimentsGrace Carpenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10920787306680792814noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520456258844139120.post-88976400135053866872011-06-10T16:10:18.392-04:002011-06-10T16:10:18.392-04:00Yeah you are!Yeah you are!J.Guthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04078638822854086600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520456258844139120.post-7550247476391066672011-05-23T20:30:55.314-04:002011-05-23T20:30:55.314-04:00Hi Dave, thanks for reading. Your account of your ...Hi Dave, thanks for reading. Your account of your stroke is fascinating, and horrifying--as all strokes are. I especially the part about proprioceptive hallucinations (fortunately, I don't have to say that out loud).Grace Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01728427612743156573noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520456258844139120.post-60987110236249624992011-05-23T15:44:10.114-04:002011-05-23T15:44:10.114-04:00(nods) Yeah, I remember compliments being hard to ...(nods) Yeah, I remember compliments being hard to manage. <br /><br />Sometimes I wanted to be praised to the skies just for, I don't know, for continuing to _exist_, for not just shriveling to dust or something. <br /><br />And sometimes I resented the very suggestion that I wasn't just as capable as I'd always been. <br /><br />And there was really no way for anyone who wasn't me to tell which was which. Heck, _I_ had trouble telling, sometimes. Sometimes I'd find myself yelling at someone for having said something entirely innocuous.<br /><br />Fortunately, folks more or less understood when I was unreasonably prickly. Friends are an indispensible recovery resource, in many ways.<br /><br />So, anyway, hi! You have no idea who I am, but I'm a friend (Dave) of a friend (Jenise) of your sister (Cindy, but I suppose you knew that part) whom they pointed towards your blog. I find your writing lovely, and Cindy assures me you won't mind a complete stranger presuming on such a tenuous thread of acquaintance, so I figured I'd introduce myself.<br /><br />Some relevant background: I had a stroke in July of '08, shortly after my 39th birthday. I'm pretty much recovered now. I wrote up a lot of my own experience here:<br />http://dpolicar.livejournal.com/370790.html<br /><br />Anyway, just wanted to introduce myself and let you know I was reading. Please don't feel obligated to respond if typing is difficult.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com