bipolar disorder

The heavy brainstem hemorrhage I suffered from July 16, 2008 left me quite impaired. Can't properly walk, balance is gone for good, couldn't swallow for two and a half years, now I can! right side is plegic, (used to be right-handed), became left-handed, wheelchair user, sight's impared, and I won't get into too many details here, hearing's impared too, though only a bit, speech was gone for a while, now it's back, though my voice is not anymore as it used to be. I am looking for friends to write/talk to on Skype, and share experiences...(I'm still possessing excellent thinking capabilities).

visual arts, creative writing as well as reading a lot! (+ or - 25 books a year), used to be some of my strong interests; sadly, due to a massive visual decrease, the above mentioned interests and hobbies lost some of their appeal, (and I went kind of bizerk! Will have to tackle my problems once and for all and find a way out). I speak 4 foreign languages fluently, love music, nature...

classical: BACH,CHOPIN,BEETHOVEN,BRAHMS...; hard rock:PJ,WHO,R.E.M.,PINK FLOYD, BOB DYLAN, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, JIMI HENDRIX, SANTANA, ANIE DI FRANCO, THE INDIGO GIRLS, PATTI SMITH, LEONARD COHEN, THE BEATLES of course,...In a word, what I call "good music".

Steven Spielberg's, the Cohen brothers', Hitchcock's, I Fratelli Taviani's movies...

Personally, I'd rather dump the telly as it is, saving only BBCs documentaries and a few good TV crime serials.

Jane Austen, V. Woolf, Tolstoy, V. Hugo, Arto Paasilinna, books about mountaineering, history books, biographies...

any person with a disability who manages to live to the full. I still have so much to learn...Buddism here migh come in handy...