In 2023, at the age of 33, I had a stroke that almost took my life or could have permanently paralyzed me. I was doing some work on my house when all of a sudden my left arm went completely dead. Other than no feeling, I couldn’t move it or feel it. Then the left side of my face began to go numb followed by my leg and I was experiencing dizziness. After what felt like an eternity, my arm came back, along with my face and leg. The blood clot thankfully passed through my brain. After spending a week in the hospital, I was still in shock at what had just happened to me. For a year, I sulked, became extremely depressed, suicidal, and had a lack o