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Message: [QUOTE="SVCBeercats, post: 4405092, member: 7874"] Interesting! After a two year COVID layoff from bowling I joined a bowling team last December. They were in need of a 4th bowler. One teammate Dave had had a stroke while sleeping on a business trip 4 years ago. He laid in a hotel bed paralyzed. Finally the maid found him about 9 hours after he awoke and just laid there. I get chills thinking what must have going through his mind. He lost vision in his right eye, hearing in his right ear, use of his right arm, and has limited use of his right leg. His left side had some damage. Doctors told him it was doubtful if he would ever walk again. Today, he is walking with a cane, laboriously to be sure. He was righthanded. He taught himself to bowl lefthanded to the doctors' amazement. He averages 148. Without his cane and use of his right arm for balance his bowling approach is a bit of a random walk but by God he gets to the line where needs to be. As he says he is not a quitter. He is quite an inspiration but so is our other bowling teammate, Keith. He has MS and uses a cane to walk. He too has a laborious bowling approach. Keith averages 156. The local MS organization has Keith give presentations to other people with MS but don't have Keith zest for life and positive thinking. His attitude is amazing considering prior to contracting MS he had a very hard scrabble life. Some people are amazing. Oh yeah, Dave's high game this season is 207! Keith's is 212! [/QUOTE]