When you have a stroke, relationships change. It is inevitable that friends sometimes cannot deal with the change. Depending what kind of stroke you have, I assume friendship after stroke "depends." When my first stroke happened, we were all in shock: me, my wife, son, brothers, extended family, parents, friends, and, admittedly, the public because I was well-known and an elected official. The first day or two, I was getting better quickly, and my biggest concern - other than worrying about the stroke and my recovery - was keeping my mother and the public out of the loop. And also trying to reassure our six-year-old son that dad would be okay. I simply wanted to keep this low-key and to not make a big deal of it. Several of my closest friends visited me at that point. Three days later, when I had a massive stroke, it all changed. When I was struggling to understand what was happening to me and I could not communicate. I know the waiting room was filled with ...
I am a stroke survivor. My blog is about my recovery, family, and possibilities.