Tethered

Frolics From a Stroke Tracy was at the start of her law career and at the cusp of life when she got a debilitating brainstem stroke that affected her breathing, swallowing, speech, eyesight, and severely weakened her left and paralyzed her right. She found herself effectively a thinking statue at the age of thirty-five. This is an account of her journey to recovery. As her brain is reset, she finds, so is her life. Like a growing child, she learns the most basic things anew, and more insightfully, the second time around. She sees the world in a different dimension this time as wheelchair-bound. She discovers what faith means when it is all that is left. In amusing and heart-wrenching anecdotes, Tracy finds that there is a life to be had, even in the cracks.

Tracy was at the start of her law career and at the cusp of life when she got a debilitating brainstem stroke that affected her speech, eyesight, and ability to breathe and swallow. It also severely weakened her left side and completely paralysed her right. She found herself, effectively, a thinking statue at the age of thirty-five. This is an account of her journey to recovery. As her brain is reset, she finds, so is her life. She discovers what faith means when it is all that is left.