First rule of recovery from a catastrophic medical event: assume nothing from the systems around you. Social, institutional, and community services can offer only a faint outline of psychosocial or emotional support because they understand only a faint outline of themselves — their own roles, goals, and the long tail of unexpected consequences that accompanies […]
Post-stroke psychological exhaustion often reveals itself less in physical depletion than in the operant futility of psychic investments once thought indispensable. Much of the energy that is demanded—whether in meeting social obligations, navigating institutional protocols, or maintaining the relational tissue of external expectations—proves to contribute little to healing. Instead, it perpetuates an endless circuit of […]
Statistically, stroke is among the most disabling medical events. About one-third of survivors regain independence, another third live with permanent disability, and roughly one in four will experience another stroke within five years. The danger is sharpest in the first year, but risk never disappears. Rehabilitation outcomes depend on severity, treatment speed, therapy, and other […]
No light, no heavenly choir and certainly no sense of omnipresent Divine love but a few months ago I came pretty close to dying. Not close enough to death to experience anything on or from the “other side” but it was quite frightening. If nothing else, nearly dying has reinforced to me how precious this […]
What already seems as though it were some distant, mythical past when human beings gathered en masse in carelessly-shared social places and no one had to hold their breath or jealously secure their body-borders for fear of some invisible viral death. How soon we forget the frenzied rush and crush of crowds, the night-lit noisy […]
The fault lies not in our stars but in ourselves and we all share this responsibility…
Daedelus Kite 