Because recovery happens microscopically slow after the initial progress it becomes quite easy to pose the question to ourselves, "have I hit the maximum recovery?"
I have only met one fully recovered individual and it took her eight full years to acknowledge that she finally felt fully recovered. I guess this information has me waiting until I hit the eight year mark prior to accepting that I am where I am. In the meantime though it is very easy to think maybe I hit the plateau of recovery.
The one fully recovered survivor I did meet and hear her speak and I did read her book, My Stroke of Insight, so this leads me to update that part of this blog...reading materials...I have read many things that have given me ideas of things to do to try and incorporate into my recovery and other readings that have been more of a motivational tool.
Life still has so many awesome things to appreciate and I'm not done seeing them everyday.
Each of the last two days I went out for cold walks here in Southern Ontario through slushy and slippery surfaces and even climbed a 165 step stairway, two steps at a time, even though I had to stop half way up both times to get my breathing back into a managable state. I was using the hand railing to stabilize my balance and help me go up and down.
Next I will speak of things I have learned that we should incorporate into our lives in order to help our brains fire neutrons and aid in our recovery.
