For several weeks, I’ve been having strange sensations.<\/p>\n
As though I am melting, like chocolate in the hot sun.<\/p>\n
As though I am walking through mud and can’t pick up my feet.<\/p>\n
As though I weigh 400 pounds, even as my actual weight continues to drop.<\/p>\n
When these were just occasional and physical, they didn’t stop me from doing all I needed to do for Tom, for the house, at the cabin. Sure, I cancelled a couple of freelance gigs, and that hurt, but my clients understood the circumstances.<\/p>\n
Today, though, the mud\u00a0reached my brain. My thinking. It’s like I’m back in the first month\u00a0of recovery<\/a> from brain surgery.<\/p>\n Michelle asked me some simple questions about our project and I couldn’t answer them.<\/p>\n Tom asked me where some things were and I\u00a0had no idea.<\/p>\n I had trouble following directions in a simple recipe, re-reading them a dozen times.<\/p>\n I tried to write an update about Tom for friends and family, but couldn’t think of a single sentence.<\/p>\n Luckily I didn’t have to drive.<\/p>\n Today’s penny is a 2015, the year I had brain surgery, less than 10 months ago. I’m not fully recovered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For several weeks, I’ve been having strange sensations. As though I am melting, like chocolate in the hot sun. As though I am walking through mud and can’t pick up my feet. As though I weigh 400 pounds, even as my actual weight continues to drop. When these were just occasional and physical, they didn’t … read more Walking through mud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[318],"tags":[67,504,537,20],"class_list":["post-9126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-refraction","tag-67","tag-recovery","tag-stress","tag-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9129,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9126\/revisions\/9129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}