Aphasia sucks, but it makes me fun every day.   My brain works fine. I see something, and I know what I saw, and the story in my brain tells what I want to say, but then the words don’t work.   When I try to say what I want, I need to figure out

Last week, my son told me that Bruce Willis had aphasia.   I have something in common. “Die Hard” was one of my favorite movies, and his action hero, John McLane, played by Bruce Willis, was awesome. No, I’m not John McClane. I have aphasia.    I listened to the stories on the news. Many

I just started to read a new book at PACT Temples Book Group for those with Aphasia. The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency written by Alexander McCall Smith is the book.   This week was the introduction group. I had started to read the first chapter using both the book and the Audible since it makes

With Aphasia, whenever I find myself thinking about saying something that I can’t think of a word, my brain goes on overtime. My brain tells me about remembering stories but I can’t come up with the words to describe them.   Last week I played golf with a new friend. He said that he was

PACT at Temple PT Students   Every chance I go somewhere I find a way to connect with a connection of someone.   Yesterday, I spoke to the PT Students at Temple. I was with the group from PACT, those of us who have Aphasia to discuss with students. I told some of the students that

My Aphasia worries me. I retired about six months from the stroke.   I had a lot of things to do. I wanted to play golf, teach a course at a university, perhaps some consulting, work out, and spend talking with my friends. Aphasia challenges my language that helps those things done.   Now I

Last week I signed up for registration for the Upstairs and Downstairs Locker Room Battle at Torresdale, my golf country club.   On Saturday, June 12, the competition will consist of both floors facing off in a Stableford scoring event. I am on the downstairs locker. There were teams players from more for the upstairs

Redo the First Time     Aphasia makes it hard to tell my stories. I read the story and it looks great. The next day it doesn’t make sense. Feeling my stories seem like I am doing a lot. It is hard. But I don’t give it enough to resend my stories again before I

Eleven Months of Aphasia   The other day was May 8, 2021, and it was the eleventh month since I had a stroke. It happened while I was in Cape Cod with my wife on Monday, June 8. I had a great time in May playing a lot of golf now that I had retired