This is not a joke. On February 17th, I was getting ready to run some errands before I picked up my daughter at school. As I walked up my stairs to take a shower, my foot hit the step. Twice.Maria’s Newsletter is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
I was reflexively about to hit the “like” button, but nothing to “like” here! Glad you’re able to form sentences and type! (Subthought: Holy shit, Lucia is driving????!!!!!) Here’s hoping your recovery is swift and thorough, and that we all learn some lessons from this. It’s the least your body could do for us, after playing such a nasty trick.
thanks! I am incredibly grateful that it didn't effect my thinking. My right hand is a bit slow to type, though. As a writer, that's terrifying. But I am expected to make a full recovery. Wake up call for sure.
We women are so stubborn!! You are the second woman I’ve heard a similar story from! In her case she had a headache but went to work anyway. As the day progressed her headache got worse and worse. Lucky for her she worked with my son! He could tell something wasn’t right and insisted on taking her to the nearest emergency room. He told her he was going to pick her up and carry her to the car if she refused. When they got to the ER and they saw her, they packed her up onto a med evac helicopter and transported her to Barrow Neurological Hospital where she was rolled straight into surgery for an Aneurysm!!!
I don’t know what it is about us women that makes us so stubborn and feeling like we’d look stupid if it turns out to be nothing serious but we sure are! And I say wee because I do it too!!
I’m so glad you got help before it was more critical and hope you have a swift recovery. I also hope other women will read this and not ignore symptoms. You might have saved a few lives by telling your story.
Maria, I want to hear absolutely everything about this. I am so concerned and so glad you are okay. Are you going to make a full recovery? Godspeed dear woman. Healing and prayers. You are loved.
Dear Maria, I'm so glad you're recovering of course, and also very glad you're sharing your experience. Every little story like this lodges in others' brains - hopefully just enough that one or two readers will pause to ponder when they have some quirky symptom. I'll never forget when a marine scientist from Stony Brook rushed up to me at some meeting maybe seven years ago, smiling widely and yelling, "Andy, I had *your* stroke!" She'd read my New York Times essay on my "lucky" 2011 stroke and it had lodged in her brain so that when she experienced "word salad" walking down a Manhattan block, she and her husband knew what to do. I recently reposted my stroke story on Substack here: https://revkin.substack.com/p/thank-you-brain-1c37565bbbc6 Heal up and let's get you on my #SustainWhat webcast to talk about your new book!
Thanks Andy! Fortunately I’m fine from the neck up so I’ll be ready to do a podcast sonnet rather than later. And thanks so much for sharing your experience! It really helps.
I was reflexively about to hit the “like” button, but nothing to “like” here! Glad you’re able to form sentences and type! (Subthought: Holy shit, Lucia is driving????!!!!!) Here’s hoping your recovery is swift and thorough, and that we all learn some lessons from this. It’s the least your body could do for us, after playing such a nasty trick.
thanks! I am incredibly grateful that it didn't effect my thinking. My right hand is a bit slow to type, though. As a writer, that's terrifying. But I am expected to make a full recovery. Wake up call for sure.
OK, I’ll “like” this one.
We women are so stubborn!! You are the second woman I’ve heard a similar story from! In her case she had a headache but went to work anyway. As the day progressed her headache got worse and worse. Lucky for her she worked with my son! He could tell something wasn’t right and insisted on taking her to the nearest emergency room. He told her he was going to pick her up and carry her to the car if she refused. When they got to the ER and they saw her, they packed her up onto a med evac helicopter and transported her to Barrow Neurological Hospital where she was rolled straight into surgery for an Aneurysm!!!
I don’t know what it is about us women that makes us so stubborn and feeling like we’d look stupid if it turns out to be nothing serious but we sure are! And I say wee because I do it too!!
I’m so glad you got help before it was more critical and hope you have a swift recovery. I also hope other women will read this and not ignore symptoms. You might have saved a few lives by telling your story.
Maria. Oh man that denial when the U is telling us see see. 😔
Maria, I want to hear absolutely everything about this. I am so concerned and so glad you are okay. Are you going to make a full recovery? Godspeed dear woman. Healing and prayers. You are loved.
Dear Maria, I'm so glad you're recovering of course, and also very glad you're sharing your experience. Every little story like this lodges in others' brains - hopefully just enough that one or two readers will pause to ponder when they have some quirky symptom. I'll never forget when a marine scientist from Stony Brook rushed up to me at some meeting maybe seven years ago, smiling widely and yelling, "Andy, I had *your* stroke!" She'd read my New York Times essay on my "lucky" 2011 stroke and it had lodged in her brain so that when she experienced "word salad" walking down a Manhattan block, she and her husband knew what to do. I recently reposted my stroke story on Substack here: https://revkin.substack.com/p/thank-you-brain-1c37565bbbc6 Heal up and let's get you on my #SustainWhat webcast to talk about your new book!
Thanks Andy! Fortunately I’m fine from the neck up so I’ll be ready to do a podcast sonnet rather than later. And thanks so much for sharing your experience! It really helps.
OMG! Glad you're able to type but damn if we don't always put our errands before everything else. Feel better soon and I cannot wait to read the rest