Sunday, June 29, 2008

recovering from stroke

last week have indeed been another milestone in my attempt to recover. Round between the primary entrance to the house and the front of the supposed future cafe the crusher run covered road, a distance of approximately 5o feet have been off limits to me since the stroke, but in the last three days i have managed to walk the path independently unaided, it was a slow walk, one step at a time,taking from sixteen to twenty minutes., those were tentative steps and shukur alhamdulillah there was not any untowards incident as i am certain ALLAH was always with me alert to my repeated recitation of surah al-ikhlas- subhanallah.i have been eyeing this feat for quite some time and previously there was always the lingering fear of falling down, not that the fear is not there anymore, just that it took repeated reminder to myself that even if i did fall, i could still get up even if bruised, if death did occur, death is what we all have to face sooner or later, so the sheer pleasure of being able to walk that path again should be attempted come what may, if progress is to be made. i am committed to make this walk again and again in the coming weeks until the fear is completely set aside, inshaALLAH, then i would have a distance of approximately 200 feet to attempt my independent walk as the next target. it is very obvious that my brain is healing, slowly, but there is still a long way, the walking automaticity is still a long way and in this only allah can help me.

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