Final Stroke
Chapter One
"A stroke is a brain hurricane. Everything's still there, but torn up and mixed
around in the soup. For example, last time we watched The History Channel at the rehab
center, Babe Ruth is standing at the plate taking strikes and the next thing I know my
husband is off and running in his wheelchair before Babe hits his homer. It's because the
word strike relates to the word stroke, and the fact that the Babe's first name is the same
as our last name ... When someone you know has a stroke, you look for keys to the past
in the strangest places. It's like history rewritten before your eyes ... Maybe if world
leaders had strokes we'd all be better off because suddenly they'd see things in a new
light. In this newer, more childlike world, the name Babe would be as common as, say,
the names Smith or Johnson or Carter."
Jan Babe
Stroke Family Support Group
Saint Mel in the Woods Rehabilitation
Facility
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