Don't compare me to a rose.

Don't compare me to a rose. Compare me to a dandelion that grows through the crack in a sidewalk.

I'll probably be compared to Terry Wallis, but I am a great deal smarter. http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-07-03-brain-rewired_x.htm

Maybe I will be compared to Jon Sarkin, but with a worse brain injury (acquired savant syndrome). We both had strokes in the cerebellum of the brain. I don't paint, though. I write.

I like this video because he describes that he was bending over to get a golf tee. I was bending over to get garbage off the floor in my car. I had an accident earlier and the car would have to go in the shop.

I was very close to death. What this woman went through will have to be included.

*NOTE-

I did not have the vision, but was near death and had a miraculous recovery. http://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2017/08/angela-ronson-part-3-how-our-brain-is.html

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"Far too often, [vegetative] patients ... are given up for gone, left to languish in nursing homes where no one bothers with physical therapy or even to check for glimmers of regained consciousness."It goes on, "That’s at odds with a growing body of research showing that many patients with no outward signs of awareness retain some degree of consciousness." http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/02/searching-for-consciousness/


I don't feel like I am "languishing". At times I will get angry and frustrated that growth is slow. That means I am still progressing. I obviously am. The first seven years went by before anyone heard from me,  Stroke Connection magazine p. 9.

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A rose didn't struggle to grow where it wasn't supposed to. 

The quote by E.V. has many pictures and is attributed to E.V. Thompson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._V._Thompson