Happy to move

Im blogging about the experience that has happened to me the day before Halloween 2008. I was at home with my roommate and chilling like usual, when I was typing ... for some reason I went to him and I just started to cross my fingers ... I could on my left hand but my right hand I was not able too. I thought it was weird, well little to my surprise I was having a stroke at 22 years old. Soon after realizing I couldn't cross my fingers my face had dropped went numb, and shortly after my entire right side of my body had went numb. I was rushed to the hospital obviously and stayed their for 1 week. It was a serious stroke ... I had 3 blood vessels in my brain that had exploded, thankfully I was not paralyzed or killed from the experience! All the doctors were surpised them selves for someone of my age to have a stroke but since then I know I won't ever have a stroke again, I know its a one time thing just have that feeling. Im really grateful for all that has happened, even thought it is something I wouldn't want anyone to experience, Im grateful to have had a new experience in my life, I thought that I had felt all the emotions I could have and have felt almost all I could, well this is something that I never had experience in my life. Im happy to be alive and able to move, it makes me appreciate all the little things I can do like type this blog, or speak as much as I do! Im so happy to be alive and you really don't know what you have till its taken away, or their is a possibility it could be taken away, im so lucky. This experience has given me the opportunity's to be more alive and grateful for all the fundamentals of my body! You never know what a day can bring thats for sure, maybe it will be your last, or just the begining of something new, but none the less don't take your life for granted you never know when something bizzare could happen, or something great!


Michael Yanke