What are your biggest challenges?
My biggest challenge is physical. It very well could have been cognitive, but thankfully, the stroke didn’t take that part of my brain. For the most part, it only took out access to my left side. While I’m never going to get my left arm and hand back,I’m entirely fine with that because it’s not my dominant side. I can still write with a pen, and it’s legible.
I’ve given myself a challenge for the coming year and a half. I’ve decided that I will be walking to and from my bathroom consistently before my 61st birthday, which occurs a year and a half from now. While I expect to be aided by a cane,I really don’t want to be wearing my AFO brace ,so it’s definitely a big challenge, but one that I feel is achievable now that I know I can walk without the AFO brace for 60 steps, 30 forward and 30 back. I’m encouraged to work on this goal. After achieving my last resolution to get healthier, it’s the logical next step (s).
Stay safe ok, you are always in my prayers 🙏
Keep on going, as my paternal family says!
My family motto is better out than in. I like yours more. It’s more apt.
It’s based on a folk art painting my grandfather did with the same name. It’s been in some Saskatchewan galleries, and it’s a scene from rural Romanian farmland