Ajay-Kumar

'at anna library', an addition to begin again. 
          	
          	https://www.wattpad.com/1616566278-begin-again-%7E-poetry-at-anna-library

fellow1945

I enjoyed teaching. It was fun to watch children learn new skills.

Ajay-Kumar

@fellow1945 that's wonderful. my mother taught kindergarten and the way the children would pour their love would warm even my cynical heart. i taught undergrads for a year, 17-18 year old, mostly disinterested, disillusioned, inattentive students, but some of them would be kind, and be curious.
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CottonJones

Ajay, this is an update on my health. On June 11th, it'll be six months since my stroke and I'm getting better but not as fast as I first thought I would. Strokes are hard to come back from as I have learned through this long ordeal, however I think I will get at least 80 to 90% of my health back especially my walking skills and my partial paralysis on my left side. It was foolish of me to think I could go back and resume my life so quickly. It was not wise, but I have ended up in a lovely place with a great view and I'm getting unpacked and getting my paintings up on the wall and things are pleasing to me. I am typing voice to text because I cannot do it any other way.
          
          The doctors say I will know another six months how much I will get back and what I'll need to adjust to become the writer and the poet and the artist I will be by changing why my style and setting my goals where they should be instead pipe dreams that I cannot achieve.
          
          I am lasting longer in today before my brain begins to shut and then I go to sleep and I get rested I'm better the next day Each day is a process of learning and becoming the better person I should be and making myself new.
          
          Soon, I am hopeful to get a device that has a halo that fits around my head and gloves on my hands that will help connect my nerves from my brain to my hands in order for me to type again.
          
          I hope this note finds you doing well and in good spirits. Love, peace, and freedom. Olan.

CottonJones

@Ajay-Kumar Thank you AJ for responding. I hope the technology works for me it is very successful for helping people especially with my type of injury and high functioning abilities in my hand so we will see what happens. Typing is not the end all of end alls I'm trying to cheat my brain to speak in complete sentences and learning how to articulate even though I have partially paralyzed face in some areas. As you know it's more thorough for a vocabulary and sentence structures, speech to text is not going to work as well at first, but I think I can conquer that eventually; as long as I do not have another stroke in the meantime. Lpf, Olan.
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Ajay-Kumar

@CottonJones thank you for providing me the update. having your paintings on the wall would be a great catalyst to getting back to making art i believe. glad technology is aiding you. take care.
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