Well guys, I am really quite happy today. It has been more than 20 years since my second stroke, and it looks like I am STILL improving, even after all that time has passed.
I peeled THREE oranges completely with only my affected hand today (right hand). I haven't been able to do that since I was a teenager.
Victory is mine! Just keep believing that recovery is POSSIBLE and recovery is CONSTANTLY HAPPENING, and then just watch what happens.
I think that the other thing that has been helping my hand and fine-motor control is the fact that I have been baking so much sourdough bread these days, and that is a very two-handed task! But I am figuring out ways to get my hand to cooperate and it is actually starting to work. And want to hear the strangest thing that I noticed the other day? I have started pulling on my jeans using two hands again! That's another thing I haven't done since I was in my mid-teens.
It's never too late to keep getting better!