What I have been up to

Recovery and recuperation

When you last heard from me it was April. But since that time I have experienced stroke. Many of you who watch my YouTube channel were made aware of my condition but many of you do not subscribe to my channel so you had no way of knowing. This is why you have not heard from me here on Substack, for a number of months.

I would like to first thank you for continuing to subscribe to my newsletter and welcome new subscribers. I do hope you will stick around while I recover.

Currently, I have therapy two times a week. It consist of speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy. To tell you a little bit about my stroke, it affected the left side of my brain which means that the right side of my body was affected. I lost the ability to use my right arm and leg. Also the speech area and my brain was affected. The Broccas area is responsible for speech. I had to learn how to walk, use my arm and speak again. In less than a month I am up walking, have limited use of my arm and my speech is still affected but I'm working on it. If you have seen my last video then you know that I have a little trouble enunciating certain words, so to make it clear I have added close captioning to the bottom of my videos.

I think that within six months I will be fully able to walk without a limp and to use my right arm. I am dictating this newsletter because I can't type. It takes a lot of effort for me to speak and pull up the words not because I do not remember the words but my mouth can’t form the sounds, but never fear I will kick this in the butt too. I hope to be able to write more other things you love and offer advice.

I am down, but not out.

So until next time be strong, be patient and I will see you on the flipside.

Be good to yourselves, Travelers.

PS: stay tuned tomorrow for a short Open Reading on my YouTube channel.