Communication Gaps
I am beginning to experience more challenges communicating with people and I don’t like it! I have always enjoyed contributing to conversations and talking to people. My husband always tells people that I am the one who can communicate what someone says verbatim whereas he can easily summarize an hour-long conversation in 2 minutes! Communicating, welcoming people, finding out about them, hosting them in our home are things that I have always loved to do. Now I sometimes find myself being more reclusive. This is not like the usual me! My voice is becoming less understandable so it is frustrating to try and talk, have people not understand me and then have to try and repeat things. I can’t contribute to conversations as easily and I sense it’s even a little hard for people to know how to relate to me. It is also difficult to even admit this is really happening as I just want to wake up from this bad dream and resume life as “normal.” However, I’m thankful that other than my speech