Tag: invisible wounds

Around eight years ago, my friend Trish said she was going to the Camino… I had no idea what that was, so I googled it and saw this:

Of course, I panicked… she was bring her daughter! Trish had a laugh and corrected me, the Camino de Santiago.

Fast forward to me in the hospital last year, my friend Dave was on the Camino… sending me videos and photos, knowing that I couldn’t talk or type back, but lifting my spirits high.

You see, during my time in hospital, my words locked in my own mind, I had a 3 things going round my mind. The first one as easy, GET BETTER, yup… that simple.

The second was a song, Music for a Nurse from Oceansize. A fantastic song, but most important for me, because the lyrics are hidden in the music, like my own words… hidden.

The last thing, the third and most important one was thing:

The mountains, to me, is freedom; a dislocated place away from normal life. And more and more, I need this… then and now.

And now means the Camino, the Pyrenees, the mountains and freedom. Hill that push you better, a believe that I can get better, to push forward, and to heal the invisible wounds that are left by a stroke.

So, the Camino de Santiago to me is a lot… and I want to tell stroke survivors that they can find their version of getting better. To find their way to put forward and create their own quest.