by Kim Keller
You know what I never realized about my mother? She has tremendous courage and determination. I never really saw it so clearly before, yet looking back I realize it was there all along. My mom had a stroke in September of 2009. It was sudden and it was shocking. She was left with the challenge of aphasia, which is the impairment of any language modality. Honestly, I never heard of aphasia before she had a stroke; now, it’s part of our family’s everyday language. Specifically, she has trouble reading, writing, retrieving words, and understanding almost anything mathematical.
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