Month: February 2020
The Comeback Kid
One of the first books I listened to after I had my Stroke was “My Stroke of Insight by Jill Bolte Taylor. I had to listen to an Audio Book as I could not read, write, or speak- much after it first occurred. This book was a comfort to me, knowing that someone had survived a devastating stroke.
In 1996, Jill Taylor was a Harvard Brain Scientist, who developed a severe brain bleed, underwent brain surgery and was not able to speak, read, walk, write or remember. She spent 8 years fighting to get back to her full-time Academic work. She was only 37 years old.
People ask her, “How did you survive?” She responds that she didn’t die that day. She decided not to dwell on what she lost, but what flourished, as her brain continued to open up to new levels of clarity. She reports that All Comebacks happen in the Brain—soo treat your Brain right.
Make SLEEP a Priority. WATCH what you eat. MOVE YOUR BODY! AND if a setback occurs–take 90 Seconds to let your emotions calm down, then disappear. YOU are responsible for the Energy that you bring each day!
Morning Ride
Emilia Clark survived a Stroke
Emilia Clarke discussing two life threatening Brain Aneurysm .
Emilia Clarke has opened up about surviving two life-threatening brain aneurysms during the early days of Game of Thrones.
In an article for the New Yorker, Clarke spoke publicly for the first time about suffering two brain aneurysms, the first of which struck shortly after she finished filming her scenes as Daenerys Targaryen for season 1 of Game of Thrones. She revealed that she experienced her first aneurysm at 24 years old while working out with her trainer.
“I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t. I told my trainer I had to take a break,” she wrote. “Somehow, almost crawling, I made it to the locker room. I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”