After a TIA, recovery can feel less like normal and more like disconnection. This post explores emotional fog, cognitive fatigue, identity grief, and how to live when you don’t recognize yourself anymore.
Category: The Mini Stroke Diaries
This is a series of blogs where I’ll explore what happened after my TIA, what I’ve learned, and how I’ve started to rebuild a different relationship with health—one that includes the nervous system, not just diet and exercise.
🧠 Mini Stroke Diaries – Part 3
The Silent Trigger Before I had my TIA, I would have told you I was “just a bit stressed.” Tired, yes. Pressure at work, certainly. I told myself I thrived on pressure — so I […]
Part 2 – What Is a TIA—And Why the Label ‘Mini-Stroke’ Can Be Misleading
When I was first told I might have had a “mini-stroke,” I found the term oddly reassuring. Mini sounds manageable. Small. Less serious. Like something you can shrug off and bounce back from. But as I soon […]
Part 1 – The Stroke That Shouldn’t Have Happened: My TIA as a Healthy, Stressed-Out Person
I didn’t expect this story to be mine. Not at my age. Not with my lifestyle. Not with my health profile. But here I am—writing this because, one day, seemingly out of nowhere, I had […]