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My story is only as detailed as what was told to me as you probably know from yours or other experiences. I will keep it simple to keep you awake. In May of 1997 at the age of 36 I was found lying unconscious on the floor of a company that I was running at the time. I was rushed to the hospital where my family was told that it must be either exhaustion or a seizure as I was prone to them when I was young. I was sent home where I was put to bed. Some time later I awoke unable to speak, right side of my body not functioning and unable to recognize my own family or my home. When the doctor was called he conceded that there "might" be something wrong after all and an ambulance was called. I suffered massive seizures in the ambulance en route that the doctors say contributed to my condition today. It turned out my brain was bleeding in the first place but no tests had been run and I was sent home based on an educated "guess". My family was told later that I would in all ! likelyhood never regain what I had lost. Well, three years later my speech is almost perfect except when I am tired and I walk like an old pro. I cannot recognize my old neighbourhood where I live but finally can make it around the block with a very detailed map. I have been seizure-free since the "incident" as we call it, and fight each day to regain a little more of my life. I went through the usual stages of "why me?" and "I give up" and all the others that plague our daily lives. This website has been a Godsend to me in helping me realize how common we are in our uniqueness if that makes any sense to you. It has breathed new life into my commitment to be all that I can again and maybe even to become an executive again instead of just the master of my t.v. remote control. Let me live and learn and I pray that I may someday help the way I am being helped here. Sure, I get tremors, confused, forget a lot,get depressed and lonely, and everything else that bi brings my! way, but I am still artistic, easy-going(most days), loving AND loved, and can look forward especially since looking back is too hard with my memory. That could be a blessing. Let's wait and see and maybe find out together, O.K.? Mark is here to stay, and I'm so glad you have made me so welcome!!!Email Mark