Ever since  I left the rehab hospital which was about three weeks after my stroke I began to hear the term
"The Law of Diminishing Returns".

 I am not quite sure of the reasoning for this term. Perhaps it was only for the ears of the medical community. It certainly is not a term of encouragement.

Apparently it means that after a certain period of recovery you will no longer see the same ratio of results that you experience right after an illness or catastrophic event, etc. regardless of the effort that you exert towards your rehab.

In a way I can almost understand what it means, for example I went from being paralyzed on my entire left side and unable to even take a step to being able to shuffle with assistance before I left the hospital.

That was a major step in my rehab considering many doctors doubted my chances or ever walking again.

 On the day I was being released one Neurologist laughed when I told him of my goal to run my first marathon.
He responded "Yeah, maybe in a wheelchair".

I have yet to run my first marathon however it has been a month shy of two years and I can still see improvements every day.

The key is to have strong faith, a positive attitude and a burning desire to improve and then commit yourself to doing a little more each day.

I may not see the dramatic improvements like I did three weeks after my stroke but I am also light years further in my development now than I was at that time.

You don't have to be a stroke survivor to experience small amounts of daily growth.

To grow and make steady improvements in all the areas of our lives is a worthy goal for anyone.

I can live with these diminishing returns any day of the week.

By the way, I have not given up my dream of that first marathon.