I Have Learned How to Make Two Hours of Misery Fun

And you can, too

Victoria Ponte
3 min readJun 3, 2019

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I’m living with severe dystonia from a stroke I had 20 years ago. This means that the muscles in my left upper extremity have abnormal muscle tone. They never receive the signal from my brain to relax. Constant muscle contraction is very painful. You can imagine this if you make a tight fist and hold it that way for 24 hours. My left hand has been in…

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Victoria Ponte

Writing to share wonder, gratitude and a sense of humor. Poetry, life lessons, survivor. Buy me a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/victoriaponte