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Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Everyday pacing after a stroke, at home as much as on the trail.
This section is about everyday pacing after a stroke, at home as much as on the trail.
On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. Some of what I lost never fully came back. I still live a full household life, at my pace. These guides are about heat, fatigue, ordinary outings, a daily Pilates habit, and the limits that did not fully return. None of it is a treatment plan. I go to Pilates every day, and so does my mom; that page is Pilates, at Our Pace.
Start with After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down, or with How I Write About Health if you want the trust page first. What Recovery Looks Like Years Later is the long view, about ten years on.
Not medical advice. If you are facing a stroke, recovery or a change in balance, heat tolerance or energy, please work with your own clinicians.
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Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
After the Stroke, Life Had to Slow Down
On March 14, 2016, I had a massive stroke. This is the story I can tell about what changed, at home as much as on the trail.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Heat, Balance, and a Slower Day
Shade, air-conditioning, early hours, and not treating summer like a dare — the same lens as the travel guides, applied to an ordinary day.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Fatigue Is a Planning Problem, Not a Character Flaw
How a day gets shaped when energy runs out, including meals, errands, and the ordinary rhythms that keep a household kind.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
What Recovery Looks Like Years Later
About ten years after a massive stroke, some limits never fully returned. This is what a full life looks like at that pace — not a before-and-after story.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
How I Write About Health
Personal experience, official sources when they are used, and no treatment plans.
Health and Recovery at Your Own Pace
Pilates, at Our Pace
I go every day, and so does my mom. Other people in the family have gone before too. This is a habit, not a treatment plan.