I am happy to say that I have recovered SOME ability to read. For the first five years (sorry...I bet that sounds unbearable) I, who had made a habit of reading two books a week for decades, lost the ability to get through a page. I could go through the motions, but no matter how simple, I lost the plot--literally-- and soon had to acknowledge that one of my greatest solaces in life was no longer on offer.
But....with nothing other than time to offer as a suspected anodyne, I have slowly regained the capacity. Not only can I read frothy stuff, but I can read serious and difficult literature if I take it in small bites, do not expect too much of myself and am at peace with the notion that it might take me 8 months to finish a book instead of 8 days.
Maybe not what you wanted to hear, but I am ever so grateful for the improvement and will hold that you have one similar or better than mine.