What are you most excited about for the future?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve gained some balance, literally. I no longer have to lean against a chair or the toilet in order to pull up my diaper. This morning, I finally showed my husband that I now have the ability to balance myself while putting on my diaper, and he was almost as excited as I am about this new ability. In the future, I’m excited to improve this ability. I’m also excited to improve the strength in my left leg, with an eye toward the end goal of being able to walk to the bathroom without an AFO brace and quad cane, which would completely change my life for the better! If I’m able to strengthen the leg enough and improve my balance enough, I might be able to ditch my indoor wheelchair,which would be an enormous difference to my world. These may seem like little things to you, but 9 years post stroke, they are gargantuan to me. And I can see them happening in the near-ish future. A couple more years of working on it should do the trick. It’s possible, and hopefully, it’s doable.