We Are All Equal in Ink Erb H. Christopher
We Are All Equal in Ink Erb H. Christopher The day after his retirement, Chris suffered a haemorrhagic stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. To regain his most valued skill - to express…
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We Are All Equal in Ink Erb H. Christopher
The day after his retirement, Chris suffered a haemorrhagic stroke that paralyzed the right side of his body. To regain his most valued skill - to express himself with the written and spoken word - he had to begin again, re-learning words and their meanings, and to write using his left hand. The language area of his brain was the most affected, depriving him of speech.
It took two years until his abilities improved enough to be seated in his wheelchair to read and write. His urge to use language as before was so strong that he was able to recover little by little what the stroke had cruelly taken away. He never felt impeded by his disability.
With a tape recorder, a notebook, and a typewriter, Chris picked up where he had left off - his inspiration awakened