| Participant S [interview was 6 monthsafter stroke]: You know, is it—you know, like, do I go onto disability for the—my entire life, or what do I do? And that’s where I’m at right now. | |
| Interviewer: If you want to come in to, ah, [Hospital], to give some back. Participant B. [2 years after stroke]: Yes! Yes! In fact, here, go ahead. B.’s partner: Do you want to give back? B.: YES!! Partner: Do you want to help? B.: YES!! YES!! YES!! Yes, because— Partner: Well, we’ll be able to make that happen. B.: Yes! Because—because things will be better. | |
| B.’s partner: B always wanted to be-well, he had seriously considered a career in medicine. And I think he couldn’t pass chemistry, it was one-it was something like that. [laughter] B. [2 years after stroke]: Yes, but-but now- B.’s Partner: You know, by default, you’re going to end up in medicine somehow. | |
| J. [15 years afterstroke]: Monday is…Lazarus House. And it’s nice, it’s—and I’ve been going there since the beginning. J.’s wife: It’s a little thrift shop. J.: Tuesday, um, it’s— J.’s wife: The library. J.: Wednesday is, um, usually a switch between…I take on Monday, on Wednesday…it’s a class at [university]. And then, um, Thursday is—I don’t know what it is. J.’s wife: [Name of rehab hospital where J works as a peer volunteer.] J.: So [hospital], yeah, that’s right. Friday is the day off. | |
| J.: But I won—I wonder what it would be like to not have a stroke. What would I do? J.’s wife: You’d be busy working. J.: I know that. But I wonder what it—I—I’m not working at [company name] now. I’m working someplace else. What would—would that be? Maybe I would—Maybe I give up teaching— J.’s wife: Or you’re probably working in a startup. J.: A startup, maybe a startup? Maybe I’m more—maybe I’m going to help other kids make the break from college, master’s degree or whatever into—So I really don’t know what I—what I could do. I never knew that. | |
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