Surviving a Stroke at 33 (and Blogging About It)

something in my brain burped. most of what i want to do is just out of my grasp. i feel like i know how to do them, but then when i go to do them, i just�CAN�T. day by day, i�m regaining my abilities, so i hope this is just temporary.

Lee�s commenters urged her to see a doctor, and the next day, she responded to them from a hospital bed: �I had a stroke! Will be better.�

I spoke with Lee about her experience, and what she has learned about herself and her writing.

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#F1F1F1;">It�s amazing that you could go through something so profound health-wise and chart a new path for yourself coming out of it. What�s the response been to your essay?

I�ve been blown away. As life-changing as my stroke was, the response, too, will probably go down in my life history as a turning point.

I had a blog � and I�ve been blogging since before it was called �blogging,� back when it was called �web journaling,� back in the days when Justin Hall was on links.net and when I wrote my posts in HTML. But before I spun up my anonymous blog, I was asked to stop blogging by a few family members. I was putting them at risk, they said, I was not to make myself so public.

Bottom line, I didn�t want to stop blogging, so I started up a blog under a pseudonym. I never told them about the blog. A few months later, I had my stroke.

The blog was one