What do you enjoy most about writing?
Since my stroke, I can’t go for a walk anywhere that’s not wheelchair accessible or farther than my wheelchair battery allows. I can’t drive, or cook,or clean up. The only thing I can still do, besides watching TV or surfing the web, is communicate my thoughts and feelings through the written word. It’s always been my preferred way to get out my feelings.
When I was a teenager, I wrote quite a bit of poetry and short stories as a way to deal with my emotions. Immediately following my stroke, my life went through a 180-degree change, and writing about it really helped me come to terms with the loss of independence and identity. Becoming paralyzed is a HUGE change for anyone to deal with. It certainly was for me. If you read this blog going back to 2012,when I started writing it, and then read the posts after September 2015,you will notice the change. When this blog began, I was living in Montreal and was looking for work. Back then, I was writing to fill the time between going to school to become a massage therapist and figuring out what I wanted for my life to look like. I also went to school to become a nursing assistant. It seems like a lifetime ago now.
In 2013,I moved to Vancouver Island and got work in retail and met my husband. We spent 2 blissful years together before I collapsed in a parking lot with a massive stroke that was a symptom of something far more life-threatening. The stroke was caused by a benign but large tumor that had grown in my right atria. I was taken to the hospital, and over the next 10 days, I wasn’t expected to live. I barely remember ICU. It’s just glimpses of blurred thoughts and fears of death.
I’ve come a very long way since then, both medically and emotionally. I’ve come a fair way physically, too. A near death experience really does change a person.
I guess the reason why I write isn’t so much because I enjoy it, as it’s my therapy. I’ve lived a lot of life quickly, and it’s been important for me to write it down . I’m not sure to what end yet, but I’m still writing ,so I guess I’m not nearing the end.
I’m glad you write. We have different stories but similar struggles and I feel less alone.
I feel similarly about your writing. It’s good to count you as my special friend who understands my struggles best, even though we’ve never met 💖
Might I suggest “The Silva Mind Control Method”? It’s a book or audio on YouTube. 💜💚💙
Just looked into the book you suggested, and I’m sorry to tell you that I don’t buy into magical thinking and I don’t believe in ghosts,so I’m respectfully declining your suggestion.
“Magical Thinking”? Your thoughts and words are powerful vibratory frequencies that in fact do change your life. If you don’t believe that you can never benefit from it. I’m sorry for you.