“Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.”

Robert H. Schuller

I got this from the latest Tiny Buddha post. Exactly what Peter Levine says about your movements in rehab. 

And more great quotes from there;

“What have you done to make your dream come true?”

I was scared that I wouldn’t be good enough, posh enough, young enough, confident enough, and Lord-knows-what-else enough to learn how to play a musical instrument. 

I hate the way my walking looks, my hip hikes, my foot swings out, my knee barely bends. The only thing that mostly recovered is I can dorsiflex the foot by thinking about it. But I'll walk every weekend in the trails in the woods, falling down doesn't occur too much anymore.  And my skiing is atrocious, it would be even worse if I had to step over all the fallen limbs and trees I cleared in the past 4 months. Right now I'd call it shuffling on skis, there is no glide yet.

Too many of my email correspondents want the instant rehab - if only I can find the right therapy/therapist.

I think the best advice our doctors and therapists could give us would be; There are NO shortcuts to stroke rehab, its going to look ugly for a long time. We have no idea how much you'll recover. Are YOU willing to put in the time and effort to recover?