About Me

I'm 24, married and have a son that's about a 2 and a half years old. There's the short version.
Now for the longer version.

The title Happiness Of The Day came from facebook statuses. I've done that for a long time, years in fact. I thought of something good for that day usually something simple or that things are not worse. There are days that it's rather hard to think of something good for the day but it's healthier to be positive, right?

I grew up in Connecticut and went to college in Utah a semester late since my dad passed from pancreatic cancer. There I met my husband. At the end of my junior year a cavernous malformation in my brain stem bled, so I basically had a stroke.

When I had my bleed I was about 4 months pregnant. My son was full term even though he wanted to come the day after I had brain surgery. Instead of 4 months early he was just 10 days early.

I never fell into a coma. Not when I started stroking and not when I traveled the surprisingly long road of recovery. I remember deciding and going through with the decision on who would slice through my brain and disarm the bomb that would kill me and my unborn baby. That decision included the risks of  not surviving the delicate surgery and leaving my husband to mourn my loss and possibly raise our son alone.

I've been working on recovering ever since that bleed and trying to accept the 'new' me and my 'new' life. My burn didn't help at all.

I am not a paraplegic or paralyzed in any way. I still have use of my whole body but I need to train my brain to send the right messages to my left side.

I also had a very minor brain bleed but I'm back to my baseline for the most part.

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