From the earlier post of
- being worse than dead
0 dead
1 perfect health
http://www.oc1dean.blogspot.com/2013/10/stroke-causes-60-loss-of-quality-years.html
This goes back to the problem of what you are comparing your current state to; The day prior to your stroke - Or the first day you woke up post stroke. If I compare my physical condition now to pre-stroke it would be a negative, I can practically do nothing easily that I could do before. If I compare physical self to the day after stroke I'm in perfect health. Mentally I'm in perfect health and probably for that reason alone my quality of life is great. I was forced out of a job that was no longer satisfying and am now doing work I love. I left a marriage that was totally dysfunctional and have made friends with lots of new people in a new location. I have figured out where I'll spend most of my retirement. And I have a challenging project to occupy my time for decades to come.
Good for you!!! Conngratulations!! Sounds like you have done very with with the whole making lemonade from lemons. I'm still a work in progress. My fatigue is soooo limiting, it really affects my quality of life still at this point. I try to work with it and not let it consume me, but that is easier said than done, when I am not able to do much of what I want, when I want. Always hoping for a miracle...or I'll take continued gradual....SLOW... improvement.
ReplyDeleteThanks for explaining, Dean. It makes perfect sense.
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