Upcoming live Podcast June 2nd. My response to a Facebook post regarding "stroke survivor loneliness" I'm Aaron Avila , 16 years post-brain aneurysm and stroke . I know that deep, heavy feeling you're carrying, because I've lived it too and I still battle loneliness now and then but not nearly as much as I used to.. Here's what I've learned: the word "recovery" is actually doing more harm than good. Doctors use it like we just had a cold or broke a bone, as if our brain will magically fix itself. It doesn't. After meeting hundreds of stroke survivors, I've seen how that word leaves so many of us feeling like failures when our lives don't snap back to normal. That's why I am building Stroke TV Media Network . We don't talk about recovery anymore. We talk about rebuilding life after stroke . Recovery is a noun, it just sits there and waits. Rebuilding is a verb. It takes effort, mindset , and action. And with the right eff...
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