<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">So heart warming to know that healing actually occurs, and that it is happening to you. Bless you for staying with your therapy and believing in recovery! Thank you for sharing your story.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">~ Ed</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Skyhawk via Thespiritexpress <thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org> </div><div>Date: 3/19/24 2:05 PM (GMT-08:00) </div><div>To: thespiritexpress@lists.mcn.org </div><div>Subject: [Thespiritexpress] Fwd: STROKE RECOVERY UPDATE </div><div><br></div></div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris Skyhawk <hawkwork@mcn.org><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>STROKE RECOVERY UPDATE</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">March 19, 2024 at 2:00:47 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Taylor <goodeart@sonic.net><br></span></div><br><div><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-kerning: auto; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-feature-settings: normal; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-variation-settings: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-kerning: none">STROKE RECOVERY UPDATE: let’s talk about my left hand, it’s been 5 years 9 mos. since my “event” in that entire time I’ve had no use of my left hand, it’s been in permanent contracture , after a good session of body work,I will leave it in a splint for a couple days, in the hope I don’t end up with a permanent fist. Sometimes it moves involuntarily; sometimes when I get startled or sometimes the tendons ripple on my hand and wrist, so at least I know its not entirely dead, but I’ve had no ability to move it at will; until YESTERDAY!! after an intense body work session; I ‘m laying face down and I feel like I am wiggling the fingers a little bit; I can feel with certainty the thumb and index finger but I’m not sure of the others; so I ask my masseuse”Am I wiggling my fingers?” He say “yes”…. “ALL of them?”…. “yes” 1st time in nearly 6 years!!! I am so filled with joy and hope; ALL day today I am near tears… WHAT a journey! The thought that I just might? Have a functioning left hand again, in this life, is A- mazing!!!</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>