When life turns you upside down all you can do is start again

Well in the past nine years, things have been very engaging for me, especially in the summer of 2010, and I started a journal, and because I don't remember much of what went on, I had also forgotten that I had written the notes below, and looking at the note now it really does reflect how I really felt then:

I had a stroke and my life changed irreversibly from that point on...

Look up, Get up, and Don't ever Give up!

How many times do you flick a switch to turn a light off ? And do you ever stop to think about it ? 

Firstly there is a room full of light and vitality, and what is left after you turn the light out? its still the same room with the same contents furnishings and decorations, it's still there except it is now vacant and dull because you have left it and turned the light off.

That's the only way I can describe how my life turned upside down, it was there and somebody flicked my switch, and my life changed totally I was still the same person wearing the same clothes, thinking the same thoughts, but the spark, my light had gone and I ended up feeling like I had two heads but neither belonged to me, as neither did my left arm and leg; and who took my voice alway ??

There really was only one thought that I had: somebody give me my life back and give me normality please. 

But it would seem that it wasn't as easy as just flicking that switch back on again and I would have to struggle and fight my way to normality, whatever that may now be, as I am now a different me and I have had to come to terms with the fact that normal is very different to that which I carry in my head.