How Having 3 Strokes Improved My Outlook on Life

Ren’s Reality
8 min readSep 5, 2019

I hit the floor laughing. It’s hard to say why I was laughing. I knew I was in shock but I also knew something in my brain had gone completely haywire. When my mom arrived I was still laughing hysterically as I told her that my brain broke.

I only remember bits and pieces of that night. What stands out is when a tech nurse came in to look over my MRI results with me and ended up calling the MRI technician to ask if she’d taken a look at them yet. The tone of her voice when she said “oh god, yes” was all I needed to hear to know that something was…

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Ren’s Reality

A stroke of inspiration (pun intended) based on personal experience, helping lift people up by understanding they’re not alone and their experience is valid.