February 2017 - AlonTree Company

Stroke equipment by a stroke warrior

Before and after my stroke

Alon Kaplan, founder of AlonTree Company, before and after his stroke.

Before I had the stroke, I cleaned, gardened, cooked, and did the laundry. I played with my daughters, nursed them back to health when they were sick, took them to school in the morning, and picked them up from school in the afternoon. I was the “assistant director” for my daughters; always at my daughters’…

And, I wept

By Alon Kaplan |

A wheelchair similar to the one Alon was in while at CarePartners.

This memory poem is about my stay at CarePartners, a rehabilitation center, after suffering the consequences of a stroke. I penned this poem a few years later.