Yesterday evening I logged on to Facebook after dinner for a quick spin around the block and to play 'Words' with Maggie, Marcia and Sally, to be stopped in my tracks by a status update I can still hardly believe.
They say lightening never strikes twice. It has. My friend Joanie's beautiful daughter Sarah was a victim of a Stroke when she was just 18 years old just over 2 years ago. Sarah has worked so hard at her recovery, and Joanie has worked tirelessly to help her and help Stroke patients in the wider community, setting up a drop in group for others who have been also affected by Stroke, and also recording Sarah's progress through her rehabilitation and " frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>
which has not only helped to encourage and inspire others, but also helped to inform and educate, not only the general public, but help professionals and medical students too.They say lightening never strikes twice. It has. My friend Joanie's beautiful daughter Sarah was a victim of a Stroke when she was just 18 years old just over 2 years ago. Sarah has worked so hard at her recovery, and Joanie has worked tirelessly to help her and help Stroke patients in the wider community, setting up a drop in group for others who have been also affected by Stroke, and also recording Sarah's progress through her rehabilitation and " frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>
Yesterday, Joanie , who is younger than me, in her 40s, slender, elegant, intelligent, compassionate and good all round egg and brilliant mother of two girls the same age as my kids, suffered a Stroke too.
My first reaction was shock and disbelief, later it was great sadness, today its a feeling of anger at the unfairness of it all.
Earlier this year they appeared together to help the " frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen>
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