Before her stroke ten years ago, Mandy was vibrant and full of life and ready for the fight. Her mom updates us: 'She continues to slowly learn new words. She shows more interest in the internet and is also listening to political podcasts. She misses who she used to be but is content with who she is now. I have never seen her depressed.
Before her stroke ten years ago, Mandy was vibrant and full of life and ready for the fight. Her mom updates us: “She continues to slowly learn new words. She shows more interest in the internet and is also listening to political podcasts. She misses who she used to be but is content with who she is now. I have never seen her depressed.”Every Labor Day weekend, I think about Mandy Nagy. It was just a few days after Labor Day 2014 that everything changed.
We’re praying for Mandy, and keeping her seat at Legal Insurrection warm awaiting her return, however long it takes.Mandy in the hospital soon after her surgery. We got to meet Mandy’s mother and stepfather as well. I read Mandy comments by Legal Insurrection readers wishing her well and sharing their love for her.My wife and I visited Mandy today in the hospital. She clearly knew who I was, and reacted positively to me reading to her reader comments.
Every year since then we have had a Labor Day weekend update on Mandy’s condition. You can read the update history at ourThis year, as usual, I reached out to Mandy’s mom for an update. It didn’t dawn on me, until she reminded me, that this was the 10th Anniversary of Mandy’s stroke.Hope you are doing well. This past year, particularly since October 7, has been horrifying and unsettling, and it’s not over.
Mandy is doing just that. She is coping with her disability by learning new ways to communicate. Since I set up her email a year ago, she now sends short one- or two-word messages with a picture to members of her family. She knows what is going on with politics and is concerned as we are about our country. Her condition is the same and she continues to slowly learn new words. She shows more interest in the internet and is also listening to political podcasts.
Ten years ago, Mandy was vibrant and full of life and ready for the fight, now she’s bravely scratching out a life one word at a time. She is very slowly learning to do simple everyday tasks on her own. Over the year she has had to learn how to do things we learn as children such as using utensils to eat or brush teeth.
Her condition has stayed the same for the past year. She can walk very slowly for short distances with a cane. She has no use of her right arm and very little of her right leg. She needs assistance everyday with bathing, dressing, cleaning and meal preparation. Her only improvement occurred about six months ago when she became interested in the music playing on my IPhone. It always puzzled her family that she lost interest in music after the stroke, since music was such an important part of her life. Anyway, I downloaded music she likes on her IPad. She can’t read who the artist is, but she can identify the photo of the artist. So, now she listens to music often. Her doctors had said that music is good for recovery.
… Mandy’s sister and I now realize how Mandy knew about the groups financed by people like George Soros. We didn’t understand back then, but we are amazed how much she knew before the rest of us. I am sorry you have to go through what you are experiencing. It shouldn’t be this way. I hope this country sees what many of us see and stop the madness. Anyway, I am encouraging her to get involved again and look at the news on the internet and TV because for years she had no interest.
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