"How did you recover so well?"
"It's hard to believe you ever had a stroke!" After almost every performance, an audience member asks a variant of that question. And...
"What were the first few months after your stroke like? And rehab?"
Of the first few months after my stroke, I have mainly sense and image memories, rather than verbal ones. Some of my senses were...
"Shouldn't you have gone to the hospital right away?"
"If you had another stroke, would you go to the hospital sooner?" More audience questions after performance of My Stroke of Luck. Yes,...
"You seem like there's nothing wrong with you."
"Thank you!" That's an observation an audience member makes at every Talkback. Then comes the question of how I am different since my...
"You couldn't even talk straight! Why didn't anyone tell you?"
Who says they didn't tell me? That might seem a flippant answer to an earnest question, asked by an audience member following a recent...
"How could they just send you home from the neurologic ICU, messed up as you were?"
That question was from an audience member following a performance of My Stroke of Luck at The Marsh, San Francisco. (I'm dedicating this...