Day: 12 July 2020

In 2012, I had a brain stem stroke which rendered me unable to walk, talk, or move anything but my eyelids. This made communication difficult. I was in the hospital for 12 weeks and I learned rather quickly that if I wanted to keep myself together mentally, I needed to laugh. A lot. I had always heard that laughter was the best medicine and I found it to be true. Laughing helped remind me that even during my awful situation