Why do nurses remember what a patient is most afraid of?
TL;DR: Because somebody asks, and somebody else carries it. I was fifteen, a few months out from my second brain surgery, and I told my doctors the thing I feared most was losing my hair. I woke up with most of it still there. My nurses did that, and I did not learn...
Does rehab feel hopeless when you start?
TL;DR: Often, yes, and the feeling lies. I rolled into the Shepherd Center at six in the evening, stared at the sunset, and thought I’d be in a wheelchair forever. I was fifteen and completely sure of it.I was also completely wrong, and the next morning the work...
How do you learn to run again after a stroke?
TL;DR: You start on a treadmill with a harness holding most of your weight, and a therapist who decides today is the day. I had a stroke at fifteen and forgot how to run. When I was strong enough my physical therapist said we’d try anyway. I told her I...
Why did my nurses protect the one thing I was scared to lose?
TL;DR Because they listened. Before my second brain surgery at fifteen, my doctors asked what scared me most. Losing my hair, I said. Months later I woke up from surgery and it was still there. I found out years afterward that my nurses had remembered, and made sure...
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