“Stroke – comedy or tragedy? I chose comedy!”
Megan Timothy grew up in Rhodesia, Central Southern Africa. Born with a sense of adventure she left home at 16 to pursue her equestrian talents in England. At 21 she moved to Los Angeles, California.
Between movie stunt work, screenwriting, acting and singing she took solo adventures such as canoeing up the Amazon, hiking the Cuzco-Machu Picchu trail in the Andes, and taking a year-long bicycle ride 10,000 miles through 20 European countries, Morocco, and Turkey.
In between she created “La Maida House” an upscale North Hollywood inn that became a well-known stopping place for celebrities and big-name politicians.
But in 2003, at the age of 60, Megan woke to the most frightening experience of her life. She had suffered a major bleed in her brain triggered by an unknown genetic defect. She emerged from a two week coma to find she had lost all ability to speak, read and write.
She writes with eloquence and humor, skillfully leading her readers through her unnerving brush with mortality. She’s convinced it was her unyielding sense of belief in herself that got her though the terrifying roller-coaster ride. And in her mind a crisis is no time to give in to the distraction that despair, anger, or fear bring.
