my #nyc trip went awesome but its been gentrified so much or my brain damage is sooo bad i got turned around in between port authority and bryant park. a walk i have taken dozens of times in the past! yikes! damn you, #stroke

NHS warning signs of stroke as Eamonn Holmes in hospital after health battle

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/nhs-warning-signs-stroke-eamonn-36999000

Brits with this sleep habit at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/health/brits-sleep-habit-higher-risk-36983772

I've started walking outdoors with walking poles. Today I walked 1.5 km. It took me 65 minutes. I'm going a little further each time. That was my 6th session. It's exciting to imagine how much stronger and faster I will be by the end of the summer. #stroke
"'A doorknob is a rock for the hand. It opens a hole in the wall,' Siken writes, and I can feel the rock in my hand. There is no metaphor here, only a search for the meaning that comes before metaphor." —Joseph Osmundson for the Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/siken-carson-poets-language-memory-loss-parkinsons-stroke/?src=longreads #writing #craft #poetry #longreads #biology #health #stroke #parkinsons
Bright, Built World | Los Angeles Review of Books

A reflection on how the poets Richard Siken and Anne Carson responded to losing their language.

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