TetheredFrolics from a stroke. Tracy was at the start of her law career and at the cusp of life when she got a debilitating brainstem stroke that affected her breathing, swallowing, speech, eyesight, and severely weakened her left and paralysed her right. She found herself effectively a thinking statue at the age of 35. This is an account of her journey to recovery. As her brain is reset, she finds, so is her life. Like a growing child, she learns the most