What do you do if you're 60 and suffer a brain aneurysm that renders you without the ability to read or write?
If you're Megan Timothy, left, you work hard for two years to recover your lost ability to communicate, write a book, sell it to a publisher and climb on a touring bicycle to make a cross-country book promotion tour.
“Because I've always been an adventurer, I'm going on this little adventure to prove myself whole again.”
That's what she told the Odessa American when she stopped there recently to sign her book, “Let Me Die Laughing: Waking from the Nightmare of a Brain Explosion.”
Timothy is a former Hollywood actress and screenwriter who has made her living by converting an old house in North Hollywood into a bed and breakfast. A risk-taker, she took some rafting trips before embarking, at age 56, on a 10,000-mile bicycle tour across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.
Several years later she suffered a brain aneurysm. She completely lost her ability to communicate. “It’s like being trapped in solitary confinement within your own mind; it was like looking through a clear window but nobody could see in,” she told the Odessa American.
Oddly enough, she's recovered most of her speaking and writing abilities, but can only read at a second-grade level. In spite of that, she wrote a book that Crone House Publishing agreed to print.
Now Timothy is cycling cross-country to promote her book. She pedals 40 to 100 miles a day and plans to continue right on through to DC.
More information about Timothy and her bike trip, her aneurysm, and excerpts from her book are online at Crone House Publishing.
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