She’s still dealing with effects of her stroke

While Carol Rhoudes has mostly recovered from a stroke, a few issues remain that make her frustrated.

“I had been on vacation for two weeks and came back to work, but I couldn’t figure out how to turn on my computer. My boss said, ‘You’ve gotten so old, you don’t know how to do that?’ I couldn’t do anything, so they took me to the hospital.

“They said I was under stress. I said I couldn’t be under stress since I just came back from vacation. It was a stroke. I lost all the facilities on my right side. It took me about a year and a half to recover, although at times I’m still incapacitated.

“When I want to say something, I sometimes don’t know how to say it. I’ll start to say something and my husband will finish the sentence for me. And I’ll say, ‘No that’s not what I wanted to say.’ He’ll say, ‘Yes it is.’ It can be frustrating.”

— Carol Rhoudes