My right eye still does not function properly. I can be in a wind tunnel and tears would stream from my left eye but the right eye? Nothing.
Since my stroke I have notice my emotions are hightened especially as related to compassion of others and examples of pride. I meet other less fortunate people or see my kids or others doing something that rings the pride bell in my mind...many times its both, seeing compassionate acts has me feeling compassion and pride in the humanity. That's awesome!
Yesterday I spent time with my kids and fed them dinner. Early in the day my daughter Kylie and I met at her school and travelled by school bus to the local Bulldogs hockey game (elementary school day, over ten thousand screaming kids!). The Bulldogs are the baby team for the NHL's Montreal Canadians. On the weekend Jacob and I went to a Marlies game courtesty of my friends at March of Dimes...the Marlie's are the baby team for the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. It's great being alive and well enough to enjoy time and experiences with my kids.
I coached my son's hockey team last night to yet another loss...my 11th year of coaching minor hockey and having the worst record ever, I don't know if that has anything to do with the fact that I coach practices from the bench because my balance being so bad took away my comfort of skating on ice...a few more years? Yesterday's pregame talk was about effort, some of the players seem to lack it and I never did as a player or in my life, if I did then I would still not be able to walk, swallow or do the things today that I couldn't directly after the stroke. My next pregame talk is about belief, if we don't believe we can do something we never will, if we believe then the possibility exists...again if I believed I would never recover anything then I wouldn't.
