I Tied My Shoes Today
Recovering from a Hemorrhagic Stroke
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The first sign that all was not well came that fall. My usual stamina eluded me. I was concerned, but I thought I was tired because I had had such a busy summer. I had tingling in my arms and my hands, and occasionally my arms fell asleep at night. I still remember waking up one morning and being startled to find a hand in my face. When I realized it was my own hand, I shook it awake and laughed off my little scare, convincing myself that what I was experiencing wasn’t really unusual. It could simply be explained by overuse in my greenhouse business. Jim was tired too, making it seem more believable.
We jumped into the following year with our minds racing ahead to the future. Life was good. I was a 34-year-old-career-oriented horticulturist with a good business and a great husband. Jim and I had dreams, goals, and focus. We had a plan and then we had disaster. We were hit with a blow beyond imagination.
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Author Megon Phillips Aesch was a thirty-four-year-old, career-oriented horticulturist with a good business and a great husband. They had dreams, goals, and focus. They had a plan, and then disaster struck, hit with a blow beyond imagination. Megon suffered a stroke caused by an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). It transformed her from a strong-willed, independent business woman to a patient in a wheelchair requiring a great deal of assistance.
In I Tied My Shoes Today, Megon shares her story in conjunction with her husband, Jim, who kept a journal while she was incapacitated and recovering from the stroke. It tells how she and her family faced the challenges of a traumatic injury to her brain—the setbacks, the triumphs, and the life-and-death decisions that were encountered for almost two years.
A story about love, growth, disaster, and renewal, I Tied My Shoes Today narrates the gamut of emotions and events in Megon’s pursuit to return to her former self. It also tells about the symptoms and causes of stroke and describes the practices and the policies the medical profession follows.
About the Author
Megon Phillips Aesch earned a degree in plant sciences from Cornell University. After working several jobs in the greenhouse industry, she successfully ran her own greenhouse business. At age thirty-four, she suffered a hemorrhagic stroke. Aesch lives and gardens in upstate New York with her husband, Jim, and their black Labrador retriever, Farley.