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Everyone of your doctors should be an expert at this. They have to tell you that they know absolutely nothing about getting you 100% recovered. In fact, YOU have to figure out your recovery yourself. No one in the world knows anything concrete about stroke recovery.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2687358?resultClick=1

Walter Klyce, BA¹

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JAMA. 2018;320(2):135-136. doi:10.1001/jama.2018.8544

“Call home, Dog died.”

The summer after ninth grade, I spent eight weeks on an idyllic lake in the pinky of Michigan, at a camp for artsy teenagers. When I look back on this time, it stands out as a sort of golden summer, full of singing, sunshine, and the best parts of adolescence. I think of myself during those weeks as being close to my best self, and I enjoyed camp so much that I even went back for a second dose the following year. Still, there is one bit of particular sourness that lingers from that first summer; one that, if not for its absurdity, would be heartbreaking.