Diary of a stroke survivor by Japhet Mesa

My maiden article received a great many raving reviews. Thank you all for taking the time to read it and for the love and concern for my health. If you have not read it yet, you can read it here . This is not the chapter 2 I had promised. That one is still in the oven. Since this blog is about sharing my journey, I wish to share my current pit stop so to say. See, after my ordeal, I gained quite a lot of weight. Largely because I was immobile for some time. Although I used to have daily physiotherapy sessions coupled with walks the effect on the weight gain was minimal. The magnitude of my weight gain struck home about 3 months ago. I was scheduled to attend a medical review and was feeling pretty good about myself. I decided I would wear a suit and tie. But alas! All my suits could not fit me anymore. That was it. Something needed to be done.  Seeing as I could not engage in rigorous workout sessions because my hip was and still is weak, I embarked on an intermittent fasting ...

These are the chronicles of a stroke survivor. To be honest, I had never given this subject any thought before my incident. It all seemed so far away, in another world from mine. I led a seemingly healthy lifestyle, no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes, I ran every other day, I did aerobics often, I slept well, etc. So I never expected this to happen to me. I shudder to think how slow my recovery would have been if I did any of these vices. You may be wondering what has led me to start this blog. See, what happened to me was life changing and it can happen to anyone despite lifestyle. I wish to help people who are going through it or might, God forbid, go through it at a later stage in life; it is also a healing process for me and it is my story to tell for I have lived to see another day. It is not always that someone survives a stroke, let alone two strokes (according to my neurologist, I suffered two strokes at once). Although it is inconclusive, my doctors informed me that I had...