My brain loves a good nap

In praise of the noble nap.  It turns out that our brain loves a good nap. For those readers who have followed my life over the last several months, you know that my brain was giving me some trouble last summer.  It was kind of letting me down.  It was making me lose my balance and fall down; it was making me feel very fuzzy about a lot! It was creating some other indelicate issues that I won't go into here, but suffice it to say, I had become a "hot mess". So I did what all of us should do when things do not feel right and I went to my Doc. Together, and with help from a range of specialists, we began to figure out what was up. 

In late September, I had brain surgery to relieve the hydrocephalus that was causing my problems. This, by the way, in the midst of a pandemic. I won't go into the gory details here but it was a success and after three weeks in the hospital and subsequently rehab, I was sent home to continue healing and to continue "remembering Perry'.  This last expression was coined by my daughter who chronicled much of the saga and was inspired by our watching  the wonderful Disney movie, "Finding Nemo". 

When people ask me how I'm doing, I tell them that I nap a lot.  If ever there was a good excuse for napping, recovering from brain surgery is surely on the list.  And surviving a pandemic should be on it too. And let's add living in Vermont in winter when the days are cold and night falls early.  We are pretty much locked up at home.  The best I can do to feel like the extrovert that I am is to zoom with friends.  I do get outdoors every day, often walking in the woods with Smooch, my trusty sidekick.  I've been playing brain games on Lumosity.  The rehab doc, who I saw a few weeks ago, told me that the first six months post brain surgery are the time when the most healing happens so we need to "throw everything at it".  So I am exercising my brain and my body.  And I'm napping and dreaming of the day when I'll be able to lounge in my camp tent and after my nap, I'll be able to have dinner with friends. Now those are sweet dreams.