Life After The Stroke – Tom Patterson – Photographer – Writer

Summer’s almost gone Winter’s coming on!

I started writing this two months ago. That morning I left my house about 10:30 A.M. on my way to Lowe’s. Our mobile home park is located right by the freeway sound barrier wall so you barely notice the white noise created by the sound of traffic. The shopping center with the Lowe’s is just a short distance acrossContinue reading “Summer’s almost gone Winter’s coming on!”

Good news…

One month after my sneeze-fall, I am back to cooking a meal now and again. Cathy and I made breakfast last Saturday, bacon, potatoes, and eggs over-easy. Now I have another brace, this one is to support my knee. The MRI’s show three tears in my bad knee (because of my fall), not enough damage for surgery. I’m not back toContinue reading “Good news…”

We’ve suffered some setbacks but…..

December 19, 2018 Three steps forward and three steps backward (oh well). As some of you know I write with the help of a program called Dragon. It takes my spoken words and translates them to type. It makes mistakes so it’s a long process to get anything to the point of publishing. Since I was left-handedContinue reading “We’ve suffered some setbacks but…..”

Cathy Remembers Day One

August 15, 2017, Tuesday, Day of Tom’s big Stroke I was awakened by Tom at 6:30am when he mumbled nonsense then laughed at himself. When I shook him and told him to wake up, he repeated the unintelligible words. Alarmed, I turned on the lights, leaned over his face and saw he was fully awake.Continue reading “Cathy Remembers Day One”

An adventure by myself

Here I am by the ocean. At Shamel Park, in beautiful Cambria by the sea. Cambria is a quaint little community on US Highway 1, about twelve miles from the famous Hearst Castle.The free Volunteer community bus dropped me off at the library this morning. We let them know yesterday that I wanted to go withContinue reading “An adventure by myself”

An ordinary day in the life of a stroke survivor and his caregiver

We got up this morning around 6:30 a.m.. I was scheduled for a CAT scan in San Luis Obispo at 10:30 a.m.. We’ve found it takes us about four times as long to get somewhere as it used to. Dressing, riding the stairs chair down, and slowly making my way out to the car addsContinue reading “An ordinary day in the life of a stroke survivor and his caregiver”

Depression And The Attitude Of Gratitude!

I’ve been thinking about depression over the last several days. Not because I’m depressed but because it’s come up in conversation lately and a couple of friends have expressed the fact that they were going through bouts of it themselves. I’ve been depressed before and I have been thinking about what is going on inContinue reading “Depression And The Attitude Of Gratitude!”

Who would ever have believed!

May 2012 – that’s the last time I did anything with this blog. Life goes on, work , kids grow older, babies are born, people die. There were always plenty of excuses. But I always said that I would get back to it. Thanks Mike D. for giving me the nudge every once in aContinue reading “Who would ever have believed!”