What is My Greatest Triumph?

My greatest triumph is getting my life back again after a post-brain surgery stroke left me with an almost non-functional left arm and a difficult-to-control seizure disorder. I was 22. The surgery had successfully treated my <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/brain-avm/symptoms-causes/syc-20350260#:~:text=A%20brain%20arteriovenous%20malformation%20(AVM,AVM%20disrupts%20this%20vital%20process." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">brain arteriovenous malformation</a>, but my healing journey had just begun. Intensive physiotherapy and occupational therapy and a lot of hard work got me out of a wheelchair and walking mostly with a cane in about a year. My left hand (my dominant hand) didn’t bounce back as well as my leg, so I learned how to live using my right hand: eat, write, brush my teeth and hair, type, and do all other activities of daily living well enough to eventually live, one-handed, on my own. <a href="https://medium.com/@GirlWithTheCane/what-is-my-greatest-triumph-acec9f23fc25">Read More</a>