Thursday........

H'yall~

Well it has been 16.5 months since the stroke. hmmmmm. I get the feeling you all back in SC don't want to tell me about your strokes. Ok, I will tell you about mine. It started on Feb 2, 2007. I was at work. Around about 9:30ish I notice something weird.My right arm went numb. I was as my desk. About to call Emel for something. And all heck broke loose. Randy got me to the hospital, thank Dog for Randy! He knew something was odd about me. He checked me in. I really don't know how long I was there. Around 11:00 AM my wife, Kim, came to see me.

"Hi Kim! The tell me I have a stroke. Who knew?"

That was all I could remember, the stroke had me in it grasp. By the time the I got down to the Cottage Hospital I was freaking out. Or rather I could not recall where I was, I came in and out of it. I spent five days there. It was hell. H E L L. Of course their is no place like "hell" or "heaven" for that matter. End the end, my lingo was fried. The left side of my brain was gone, my language was gone. Who knew? So I had nothing on my Carotid on my left side and 29% on my right side. I should have been dead. Being that I was only 46 years old gave me hope.

I mean Joan and Bill should have warned my about this. Maybe they did not know. But come on, I was simply to far down the ladder and well, they did not care. I have to say it, they did not care. You can wish what you want to, Joan and Bill were evil.

Anyway, I spent five days in the Hospital. There were some nurses that helped me and some that did not. I was poke and prodded. I was given blood thinners. Mucho blood thinners. I was on comedian for 6 months. Around March I had another stroke. The upped my level from 5MG to 12MG. Yhea, that was good! Comedian is a killer of Rats. Of course by this time I'd spent 10K on my speech. It really came quickly. I mean for my stroked out condition. Let see, as I had only been at work (Citrix) for 6 months. So, I had to start work again after 3 months went by. So I started it again. Around this time Joan called it quits. I came back to SC for here funeral. Once I got back, I needed to go in for a Carotid Endarterectomy which gave me a month off. Then I was back at Citrix again. So I went from 50% at work, to 70% come Sept, 90% come Nov, 100% come Dec 18th. This was cool for me then, getting better and better every day. And then the depression hit me. I did not want it, I did not know was depression was. It is awful. So then I got on Prozac, which believe me, was a miracle. So I have been on Prozac for 6th months, I mean I was high for a while, 3 or 4 months and then leveled off.

Ok, so then their is the Aphasia. Aphasia! Bad! So I know what you want but, I can't say it. It is frustrating to me. It is coming along, but it is a snails pace. It will likely be another 6 or 12 months before I am over it.