So your doctor is not being honest with you about your 10% chance of full recovery. Or not telling you there are NO stroke rehab protocols. Lying by omission?
Weeks after stroke, editor Bob Gabordi: 'I just want to be who I was. I want to go home'
One day, during physical therapy, I
noticed a small Christmas tree. It wasn’t much of a tree, really. But it
had my attention, like a mirage in the desert.
I’m rehabilitating from a Nov. 9 stroke at Sea Pines Rehabilitation Hospital in Palm Bay, after lifesaving stops at Viera Hospital and Cape Canaveral Hospital.
Sea
Pines is an amazing, wonderful place that restores the “people-ness” to
people with broken bodies like mine. Honestly, so many have it worse
— face more difficult obstacles — than me.
Some
days are better than others. My problem is that I judge my progress and
potential based on my latest therapy session. Some days I’m way ahead of
everyone’s expectations — except mine, of course. Everyone says I
should give myself some credit, or a break. But I don’t want either. I
just want to be who I was before the stroke, and I want to go home.
Road to recovery: FLORIDA TODAY Executive Editor Bob Gabordi healing after stroke
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