Essays about the Stroke

[elisem]

In January of 2011 I had a stroke. Fortunately, I got care immediately, including tPA (tissue plasminogen activator) to bust the clot, and I came through it all with very little damage.Considering that when the stroke was happening I could feel myself losing a bunch of words -- mostly nouns -- and the ability to pronounce sibilants, I feel really lucky. The words came back, and so did pronunciation; I only have the difficulty in pronouncing sibilants that I already had from not being able to hear myself due to my hearing loss of long standing. Anyhow, I digress. Often. Usually at great length. Ahem. Right. Where were we? Oh, essays. Yes.

I got very lucky, but there were some changes from the stroke, some of which affected my art a lot.

Here are four essays I wrote about that:


Art After the Stroke, Part One: Seeing Every Thing
https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/1681222.html

Art After the Stroke, Part Two: Counting Flax Seeds
https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/1681523.html

Art After the Stroke, Part Three: Frozen in the Fields of Plenty
https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/1681756.html

Art After the Stroke, Part Four: And By My Eyes Be I Open
https://elisem.dreamwidth.org/1682015.html


It's probably time for some more essays about this. I'll try to give you a ten-years-later report. In the meantime, there are the earlier essays, and if you have questions, put them here and I'll try answering them, possibly at length in another essay. Thanks for reading.

Comments

[naomikritzer]

These essays are so interesting.

Did the stroke affect your experience of synesthesia at all?

[pameladean]

I am glad to have read those essays again, and glad you're coming back to this subject.

P.

[sovay]

Here are four essays I wrote about that

Thank you for them; I don't know that I saw them at the time.

[queenbookwench]

Thinking of you today.