What is your story?

A few years ago, I suffered a mild stroke that left me a little slower when it comes to my processing and memory recollection.

What would you tell the medical team, if you could now?

I wish my medical team understood that I really don't want help trying to understand or pull up my memories. I want to struggle through trying to remember and trying to get back to a way of thinking I was used to, even if that might not be possible. The struggle has value.

What would you like those around you to know?

That even if I don't always come off that way, I’m really excited and happy to be around other people, with friends and family, and to be out and about, even if I might not look that way externally.