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As I said in my last post I woke up and had breakfast and was on my way out when I had my stroke. I was laying on the floor of our Airstream trailer as my dog, Lucky, sniffed at me with a worried look. I told him it was all OK but I don't think he believed me. Kate was getting dressed because we were going to meet the ambulance. Mora is a very rural area and when she called 911 the ambulance for our area was tied up somewhere else. They were sending an ambulance from 40 miles away. I began to crawl out towards the car but not being fully aware of what worked and didn't work it was a struggle. Who thinks you will have to learn to get up off of the floor all over again. Stairs are never the same, seen as a danger more than great aerobic exercise.  In San Francisco, we would walk Lucky from the fortune cookie parking lot, each stall has a fortune, up Vallejo St. from Chinatown to the Vallejo steps. The Vallejo steps end at the top of Russian Hill. Then we'd walk over to Geo...
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No such thing as a Daily routine

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Well I missed a couple of days but I’m looking at cook books and web sites for new things to try with what we have in the house. I was always the cook it all on high and under the broiler kind of cook. I'm having fun cooking for the first time. I’m looking at houses in Mt Clemens and thinking of buying a tractor  with a brush hog attachment for New Mexico. I guess this is a good time to give you a bit of my back ground. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. I lived in Fairfax, Berkeley, Calistoga and Richmond. I'm 58 years old and I left the Bay Area in March of 2016. I'm Japanese Hawaiian and fluent in spanish due to working as a General Contractor for 25 years.I'll fill in more later as I go. This is harder than I thought to write a blog. I can't really dig dirt any longer but I can shovel snow. I don't have use of my right arm or hand and I use a brace on my right leg to help me walk. That's the side with the replaced knee. It's coo...
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Daily life in the new year

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I walked my mile on the tread mill but I can see it has to be everyday to start to feel like I’m getting better.   It’s been one and a half years since I had my major stroke. I was on our land in Northern New Mexico getting all of the utilities in. The day before I had back filled the 120 foot leech line for the septic system. Just as I in for dinner my neighbor shows up with his backhoe to back fill the septic box. So it was a long day  Nice to be done though. Last night watching a Korean Drama.  I slept well and had my morning coffee. I was ready to go out to finish a couple of pipe caps for future sewer connections when I watched my phone fall out of my hand and even though I said help in my head my wife told me later it was garbled. I hit the floor and could hear her saying to the 911 person that I had a stroke. More soon.
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Day one

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 Hello, This is just a warm up test. It’s January 1, 2018 and It’s time to start writing about my experience after my stroke. I’ve had some interesting revelations and barriers that appeared became challenges to overcome. I hope my journey is interesting to you if you decide to follow it.  October 2017,  Back in New Mexico and picking up where I left off. Cap off the sewer pipes I won't be using but this is getting ahead in the story
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