This is True 1498: Pillars of Creation

Fair but Short Warning

Other Good Reading: “At least 180,000 Americans are diagnosed with aphasia every year” writes a woman in the Washington Post who recovered enough to be able to write about it. Millions are currently affected in the U.S. alone — more than Parkinson’s, cerebral palsy, MS, muscular dystrophy, and ALS ...combined. When my dad had a migraine coming on he couldn’t speak, but still, until reading this I didn’t know how common aphasia is, and that it’s rated as having “the largest negative impact on quality of life of any of 60 measured conditions” — larger than cancer or Alzheimer’s! It’s understandably short, but interesting: When the words won’t come. This is my life with aphasia.

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