Tag: AFO

• Wheels

  I wake sometime between 5 and 6, as usual. Get up, tell Alexa to turn on the bedroom lights. Pad into the washroom. I’m extra wobbly in the morning so I have Alexa turn on the kitchen lights while I grasp the counter and carefully step my way to the corner where my morning dose of Sertraline (the generic of Zoloft, for…

  ellie

  April 20, 2017

  ataxia, The Stroke Story, The Third Year, Updates

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• Vertigo cont. plus an AFO!

  

  “May I have your date of birth and is the member ID number on the back of your insurance card?” I wanted to cry. My prescription was going to be filled and, soon, the world would stop spinning and I’d be able to close my eyes without feeling this feeling. Vertigo sucks. I read my…

  ellie

  August 5, 2016

  The Second Year, The Stroke Story, Updates, Writing

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