It’s Christmas 2021. It has been 18 months since I had my stroke. My life has changed. Sometimes it isn’t easy, but my friends and colleagues make it easier to figure things out.   Because of my Aphasia, I worried that I would be stuck at my house because I hated being out in the

Last week I participated in a study at the University of Pennsylvania. The study is “A Physic II, Randomized, Controlled Trial of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and Constraint Induced Language Therapy to Treat Chronic Aphasia.” Like I can figure that out!   If you have Aphasia, you should look to see if it is of

Early on Halloween, I had on a golfer costume. It turned into quite a trick for me.   I shot an Ace, a Hole-in-One. It is rare. I am an amateur and not playing well.   Being that I had a stroke on June 8, 2020, I blamed my terrible golf because of my Aphasia.

When I first started with our new technology company, a smaller company merged with a larger company. During our first meeting, the executives from the “new” company always talking like all of their leaders were “rock-stars.” Many of us who were hardworking figured we were outstanding, but people did not recognize us as “rock-stars.” It

As I continue to see progress on Aphasia many of my vocabulary.  With starting back in therapy after Florida, we went over some of the tests to see how we did. In many areas, I have done great. However, we talked about something called “Working Memory (WM)” or “Short Working Memory (SWM)”. It seems that

I just spoke on my Small World when I lived in Munich in 2007. As you know that working on my aphasia language is to learn using stories on AphasiaRocks.com. When I started the story, there were pieces I could not remember. I went into google earth and found the map in Marienplatz and from