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Hindsight and Healing

Getting help to set off in the kayak

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She approached me with what looked like a midget light saber. But then she flipped the switch and it started vibrating.

I was sitting in a hospital room, about to be discharged to go home and figure out the rest of my life. Alive after brain surgery, my right side had become totally paralyzed during my time under the knife. During a month of rehab I had regained some function, and could feel sensations, I just could not control much of my arm or leg. This was not good.

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Zen dishes

Marjorie Turner Hollman helps authors self-publish their books. She is also a disability advocate, sharing information about Easy Walks (not too many roots or rocks, relatively level with firm footing, and something of interest along the way) in open space. Link to all Marjorie’s books.

Another successful exercise of Zen Dishes

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I returned to my home weakened, yet desperate to do anything. After surviving brain surgery that left my right side paralyzed, I was sent to a rehabilitation facility for two weeks. During my stay the staff had insisted we inmates (patients, that is) perform what they called “standing therapy.” We were encouraged, teased, and cajoled into standing for periods of fifteen minutes at a time. Most of my fellow inmates were stroke victims, almost all elderly, and they needed a lot of cajoling. I was much younger than the others, needed no cajoling, and resented the undisguised condescension in the therapists’ voices.

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