'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.'
A great readable book, 'Fail, Fail again, Fail Better' by Pema Chodron. It is only 131 pages long and half that is blank pages. I finished it in 30 minutes on two plane rides. If your doctor isn't telling you how many millions of times you will fail then you have a doctor that doesn't understand stroke rehab at all. You need to embrace your failures and use that resilience to recover.
So far I have probably failed 10s of millions of times. Before I die I assume I will have failed 100 million times and yet that doesn't deter from keeping on trying. To not try for me is the same as giving up and having my spirit die. That will not happen.
For those of you keeping track there are four stroke books you absolutely need to read.
'Stronger After Stroke', by Peter Levine. A stroke researcher telling you what you need to do to recover.
'Stroke After Stroke: A Rower's Pilgrimage' by Barbara Polan. A first person account of recovery that tells it like it is, not one of those, 'Look at how special I am that I recovered from a stroke'.
'My Last Degree: A Therapist Goes Home After a Stroke' by Rebecca Dutton She is an instructional OT so she has wonderful insights into how to plan your recovery.
'Fail, Fail again, Fail Better' by Pema Chodron.
Other books I have used in my recovery are here:
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