Month: April 2024

My last update was exactly two weeks ago, on April 13. That post was focused primarily on use of my left leg, and walking. Since then I have been walking exclusively with a hemi walker. My steps are slow and measured, but I’m walking, not riding in a wheelchair. We have, in fact given the…

A week ago I wrote that I was up in a walker and no longer in a wheelchair. The walker I was  referring to is called a platform  walker – just a standard walker except it has a “platform” for my left forearm attached to the left handle. It provides stability and allows me to…

After the stroke I spent 25 days in the hospital, thee days in ICU and a bit more than three weeks in inpatient rehab. I longed to be home with Laura with my own property about me; with my own dog Max and with my own TV with the channels I normally watch. But before…