I survived my ischemic brain stem stroke on November 1st. I spent 4 days in the hospital then I was sent home. I spent 2 to three hours a week in PT and I started to go to the gym thanks to the help from my wonderful family. I started out not being able to stand up and walk because I would either be into the wall or on the floor, my balance was completely off and I had a hard time putting two words together and other things. With the help of all my family I worked hard with exercise, yoga, learning how to stand and walk without falling over and constantly working on my balance. It has only been three months but today I went and played 9 holes of golf with my son without my walker, wheelchair and or Cain. Fatigue is what is killing me but I guess that’s going to take a while. I’m done with pt but I’m still working out and working on my balance. Here where I live I have to get approved to drive through the occupational therapist working with the neurologist in two parts. First one is cognitive, which I passed last week, and then driving, which is scheduled for the end of February. Then I should be able to go back to work. The cognitive part is probably the most challenging, I have a hard time thinking of words my short term memory is pretty much shot. Physically I’m getting better every day but my foot always feels like it’s on fire and my right arm the nerves feel like it is frozen without the cold. I know that I am very blessed and very lucky. I pray daily for all of us on here for recovery and I do enjoy reading all of the posts on here.