Just a link to another weblog today, but it is a link I encourage you to click. A fellow knitter-in-Scotland, Kate, suffered a stroke some time ago and this is how she is experiencing the recovery process.
Without going into too many details, I can relate to her words and her post made me think quite unhappy thoughts about past events in my life. Then I began thinking about how we relate to our bodies, about how we define ourselves and about that strange link between our minds and bodies (a link it took me decades to accept for one reason or another). And how life is one continuous process of defining, discovering and accepting ourselves in ever-changing contexts. I know I am now very different from who I used to be but I also remain the same.
I wish you all the best, Kate, and I hope for your speedy recovery.
Hugs. Reading about someone else recovery certainly brought some things up for me too.
yes. yes. and yes. Powerful reading.
For me, learning that my body cannot allow me to become a mother has been the most defining aspect of my relationship to my own body. It changes so many things.
Thanks for the link and the thoughtful insights.