Mind of my Stroked Brain

When I started to write, it was very new to me and was via WhatsApp to a handful of very close people. It was more a compulsion - that was the only way I could convey what was going on in my mind. It was a very small group on WhatsApp. After a while, I got some courage and included a few more people. Still on WhatsApp. I had to create a broadcast list for that. This, while it was to share my random thoughts and share what I was going through and thinking, was mainly to generate conversations. I badly needed them. Encouraged by many of the folk, I put it up on a blog. I don't know why I did it, it was a painfully long job for me. I think I did it mainly to prove to myself that I can do it. No bells or whistles - just a very simple one. I knew nobody was seeing it because it gives stats, but for some reason kept it updated. It was just there. Nobody really visited it. Recently, I decided to post it on social media. Simply because I wanted to get a better readership reach on one part

Today is my  3rd strokeversary . 1,095 days (well 1,095.75 days 🙄).  Unbelievable for me, but I have survived another year.  It has been a hard year!  Physically - it has been what it has been.  Mentally - it has been much much harder! I could not have made it without the Love, affection, patience and care of my Wife , my Kids , my Family , my Friends , my therapist , my several nurses , my various Doctors , support of many of you well wishers and lastly (but not the least) - our Dog ! Rather than write some boring stuff describing my experiences the last year (which I have done no short job of - I assume), I thought I should share a sort of - objective view of the progress in the last year.  A sort of " Report Card " on the year if you will. Everything here is also subjective. But I have converted the subjectivity to a scale of 0 - 10, simply because we generally understand numbers better than long descriptions. 10 does not denote something is fully working fine. It just