neurorehabilitationFromTheTrenches

 Here follows an ordered list, in order of preference, of three books by coincidentally deceased authors. The Missionary Position This was my second reading thereof, having received it as an Xmas present. I’m delighted to report that a fuzzy memory may well mean, I can enjoy many other old favorites. It’s very brief, and like all Hitchens’s work, it makes one think. I remember reading about Mother Teresa in a primary-school, religion book, in a chapter dedicated to her. This book takes a different angle on the now-saint --despite Christopher Hitchens’s best efforts-- I won’t ruin it; get yourself a copy, but two quotes kept coming to me as I read. Both I learned about through Christopher Hitchens, in happier times. “With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil - that takes religion.” ― Steven Weinberg "Give a man a reputation as an early riser, and he can sleep 'til noon." — Mark Twain The thing about Mot

Spring is here! I’ll probably have my lying-bike for the next neurorehabilitation report, which will hopefully follow this new format; which is basically an update on each of the main component parts; namely, in no specific order, speaking, my Harm, double-vision and walking. You see, the gradualism of my healing, it occurs to me, is irrelevant because I couldn’t know where, in the big picture, I am. What I mean by that is; I am aware of small improvements taking place but I am aware also that I’m miles away from where I want to be, somewhere on the trajectory. So I’d rather focus on the component parts and trust that it will all come together in the end. Speaking I must sound like an imbecile, but I can assure you all that the slowness of my speech has little to do with my cognition. Rather, it is a malfunctioning of the various body parts involved in producing speech. This involves mainly breathing but my speech is also hindered by a general numbness of the left side of my face and m