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My Stroke: Recovery and Graduation

By Michael Shawn Sommermeyer | July 10, 2019July 16, 2019 by Michael Shawn Sommermeyer

I suffered a stroke on July 15, 2015. One eye was bigger than the other and I was paralyzed in an altering pattern; my left face was numb, my right arm was numb, and my left leg was numb. Not the usual pattern for a stroke. Yay, me. Always having to be different.

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