A husband’s stroke, the Australian bushfires, and a trip to the Great Barrier Reef.

“When I woke up hours later, I really believed I had been in those mountains hiking — that it was not a dream. And I really had lost my voice. I had lost my words. I was unable to say, ‘I am trapped in my brain’ or, ‘My memories are mixing with imagination.’”

On the experience of having a stroke.