{"id":205,"date":"2025-07-30T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ownslp.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-08-13T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T12:09:16","slug":"chapter-35-a-confession-in-recovery-the-scream-of-one-who-lost-words-and-fading-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ownslp.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 35: A Confession in Recovery &#8211; &#8220;The Scream of One Who Lost Words, and Fading Connections&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">As you read my writing, I feel I must tell you the truth, lest you think I&#8217;m doing well. Even now, speaking is incredibly difficult for me. Even as I write, forming proper sentences is a struggle. I&#8217;m writing this in the hope of clearly explaining my situation to people, to offer even a little help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Yesterday, when I met the professor at the hospital, I desperately wanted to talk about so many things. I wanted to ask in detail what would happen next and what I needed to do. But in my current state, I can&#8217;t properly express those feelings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Only meaningless sounds come out, like: &#8220;\ub1cc\ub1cc\ub418\ub878\uc624\u3153\ub808 \uc544\ub77c\ub124\ub418\ub77c\uce74\uac00 \uc544\ub77c\uc790\ub9ac\ud558\uace0 \u314f\u3141\ub098\ucf00\ud30c\uac00\ub974\ub2e4\uac00.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The only words I can manage to utter are formal sentences like, &#8220;Yes, Professor, thank you for helping me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The professor would speak at length, saying things like: &#8220;\ub124\uc5b4\ub77c\u3163\ub418\uc624\ub77c\u3163\u3153 \uc544\ub77c\uba54\ub0b4\ub38c\ubc14 \u3134\uc544\uc5b4\u3154\ub098\u3161\u3139\ubbf8\u314f\u3134\u3147,&#8221; but the only questions I could ask were fragmented ones like, &#8220;When will my body get better?&#8221; It&#8217;s incredibly difficult to express what&#8217;s truly deep in my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Even after studying for a year and a half, I still can&#8217;t speak properly. I should have studied more. Studying now is like very young children learning Korean for the first time. I am still studying Korean again. I want to fully express what&#8217;s in my heart right now, but when it doesn&#8217;t work out, I eventually give up. As I repeatedly try to talk to people only to be frustrated and give up, naturally, the frequency of my meetings with people has decreased, and now I hardly meet anyone. Since it&#8217;s almost impossible for me to speak, I can&#8217;t convey what I want to say to others, and when they speak to me, I don&#8217;t understand, leaving both of us frustrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Fading Connections, and the Remaining Family<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Living like this, everyone around me is now disappearing. After a year and a half, almost everyone has left my side. Only my family remains. But I am so incredibly grateful just to have my family by my side. The ability for my family to endure this difficult time largely comes down to the power of <strong>money<\/strong>. If we didn&#8217;t have money, if we were even a little financially strained, it would have been difficult to receive my family&#8217;s help as I do now, and I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to do anything. I am truly grateful to my family who are helping me like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-large-font-size\">Why I Write<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I am still studying, but I am still very much lacking. However, I want to help other injured people who read my writings online, even if it&#8217;s just a little. That is why I am writing these difficult words even now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">If there are people like me who have lost hope and want to die, this is what I want to tell them: It&#8217;s hard, but I keep writing because I want to live more, and I want to help others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The reason I&#8217;m writing this today is because I met the professor yesterday and heard that &#8220;my body has improved.&#8221; I wanted to tell you my true feelings from the beginning, in case I appeared as though I had completely recovered. I still have a long way to go, and there will be many more moments of frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u2705 Simple, Repetitive Word Practice \u2013 Speech Support (English)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater Heater<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses Glasses<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver Shaver<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt Belt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves Gloves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt Skirt<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf Scarf<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers Nail clippers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear Ear<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla Gorilla<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple Pineapple<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus Bus<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom Mushroom<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage Marriage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you read my writing, I feel I must tell you the truth, lest you think I&#8217;m doing well. 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