Today,
October 29, 2013 is World Stroke Day. Stats say one in six people will have a
stroke in their lifetime. If you are that one
in six, you may not survive it depending on what kind it is and where you are
when it happens.
Imagine your life today. You can drive, walk, communicate, do just about anything you can think of. Now imagine you are trapped
inside your own body, unable to move, unable to communicate, unable to do any
of those things you are used to doing? You know what you want to say, you know what you want to do but you cannot do any of those things at all. You cannot reach out and touch your loved ones or talk to them anymore because you are frozen or simply cannot remember how to do the simplest things. Can you imagine one of your loved ones
in this situation? Watching them struggle, knowing it is hard. Knowing you
cannot do anything but try to help and guess at what they want to say or do
until they can communicate? Watching them try to move or communicate and seeing
the frustration in their face and the tension as they struggle to get the
simplest thing across?
