Sometimes when I feel like that the best thing I can do is sit down with a pen and paper and just write. In the hospital I've sat for hours making bulleted lists of whatever was happening. "I went to the bathroom" (ok, probably not that ). "Just had a check." "cried this evening"

Eventually those jotted notes became sentences that I could use to help me communicate as I was having trouble expressing myself. But they truly began as little more than just random words on a page.