In 2018, Sadatmousavi had three back-to-back strokes which resulted in a diagnosis of aphasia.
Before his first stroke, Peter Sadatmousavi was an engineer for a mining company in San Jose, CA with an MBA from a German university.
Now, when he goes to Starbucks, he presents a message on his phone: “I cannot speak but can hear you. Please give me some water with ice.”
Sadatmousavi found Friends of Aphasia online and began attending meetings via Zoom before deciding to move to Tucson to join our in-person group. And he hasn’t lost his proclivity for innovation — while the stroke limited his mobility, Sadatmousavi still plays guitar, swims and puts on a necktie one-handed, cuts his steak with a rolling knife, and invented a device to clip his fingernails using the same hand he’s holding it with.
