Musings

By Tom Watson May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It’s also National Stroke Awareness Month. I didn’t plan to be connected to either one. A few years ago, I thought I had vertigo. I’d been dealing with it off and on for years—dizziness, spinning, the occasional drop to the floor. I was wrong. What I thought was vertigo were small strokes. What I brushed off as inconvenience was something more serious. What I didn’t understand at the time was how closely tied our physi