I don’t know about you, but I’m all in for something new and different this year. Like maybe making money as a writer. Hmm … ? 🙂
I suppose that’s still possible. However, I’ve been working on a long-term project. And that project is me.
Let’s start with the stroke I had about 20 years ago, from which I thought i’d completely recovered, but hadn’t.
About five or six months after the stroke, I developed a rather irritating and constant clenching in my left hand and foot. This was diagnosed, in rather short order, as dystonia. As a result, I have been receiving what has become the standard recognized treatment for dystonia, which in my case (and every case is different and affects the body differently) consisted of Botox shots in my arm, leg, hand, and the bottom of my foot (which is so painful, the first time I got one, I thought I’d levitate off the table to get away from that needle—I did not succeed).
I was getting some benefit from this, but not complete benefit. Also, it was not “fixing” the problem, which originates in the brain. What I needed was to retrain my brain in a way that would engage all my muscles correctly. This just wasn’t happening.
About a year ago, I started engaging in physical and occupational therapy, that’s had more effect on me in the past year than I’ve seen in the last twenty.
This video ended up being is about that journey.
So long, 2024! Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.
And, let’s hear it for 2025! 🙂
PS: Have I got a “thought-provoking rhetorical question” for you! 🙂
And now for something completely different! 🙂
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