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Before And After The Stroke

Before And After The Stroke

Before the stroke, I was willing to compromise my relationships by moving away from both my home and those I loved for the status and monetary gain of a career as a neuroanatomist at Harvard.

Although I was truly grateful to recover the vast and important abilities of my left brain, post-stroke I was no longer willing to choose the treadmill of work, work, work. Pre-stroke, my left brain had defined success through the achievement of external rewards.

Post-stroke, my right-brain characters found meaning through the internal standards of loving, being loved, and being in service to others.

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