I'm posting this in all the "Glitch" threads to make sure it reaches everyone. :-)
He's doing his best to reach out and "talk" to the folks who have contributed in so many ways with prayers and good mojo. He's been so touched by the love and support and wants to make contact to let everyone know he's still kickin' and determined!
He gets frustrated because it takes him so long to make even the simplest little post. But, I remind him that it's something that he couldn't do even last week. "Everyday a little better" is what I keep telling him.
Each night, we go through Facebook and all the pages here and I read the comments to him. Everyday, he opens all the cards and packages that have arrived. Collectively, everything is keeping his spirits up and helping to push him forward.
When my buddy Barry went through this several years ago from his stroke, he said the hardest part, perhaps the most frustrating part, was at the beginning of his recovery. He has said that when he re-learned a thought process step one day, the next day he knew he learned it but could not duplicate it.
When he was talking to me about it he said it felt like a set back every day that he could not remember things that way. I pointed out to him that the day before he could not express his frustration in words and now without realizing it, he was telling me how he felt about it!
Remember opening millions and billions of neuro pathways one at a time takes a while, when he gets to a point he will be using multiplication instead of adding one or several at a time.
Hey Glitch- I've said it before here, that music is a great healing power- I do hope you've gotten a chance to catch a few of my fave tunes here as I can post them.
I like the picture behind you. I think I was there when that happened, if not it was a very similar moment. But then, who would believe you would do such a thing.....more than once!