Ischemic Stroke (Blood Clot Related)
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Hi everyone. My name is Lee, and I suffered a stroke last Thursday, 4-8-21. I was substitute teaching for a PE class, when the entire left side of my body went numb right after lunch. After I was rushed by ambulance to the ER, and after the CT scan...
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Metaphors Help Us Mend…and Learn
Dear AHA/ASA friends, A metaphor is a figure of speech that compares two different things that provide the hidden similarities between them. I had used plenty of metaphors in my life (before my stroke) but I never thought of it as a “thing.”...
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What do I do?
I suffered a stroke in September, I was a teacher and a got sick pay while recovering until it run out, then I got short term disability, now my employer called me up and said he is non-renewing my contract so I dont know
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Personality change. From the stroke or the trauma?
I had my stroke in 2019. A friend was visiting and I, by the grace of God, was taken to the hospital and received the TPA shot very quickly. My recovery was hard for me. My impairments were stubtle but terrorizing for me... speech challenges,...
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Russian Dolls: The Nested Attributes of Aphasia & Recovery
Dear AHA/ASA Friends, The metaphor of a Russian (or nested) doll is a large part of our public consciousness to help understand one difficult problem or another to be solved. After my stroke and while still unable to express my thoughts (about my...
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Surprising (and somewhat destabilizing) second opinion
I visited a new neurologist this week for migraine treatment, after 20+ years of tolerating monthly headaches. One of the first things he said upon entering the room was that he didn't believe that I had an infarct when I experienced a cerebral venous...
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Work In progress
So I had my stroke in Nov 2020. I was at work chatting away with one of the customers when I became aware that the customer couldn't understand me. The more I spoke, the more my speech became slurred. I owe my recovery to Divine Intervention and my...
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Aphasia Recovery & Word-Finding: Neural Knitting by Any Other Name
Dear AHA Friends, It is impossible for me to describe the process of how my brain got better. It is just as difficult to try to explain how knitting works. Like many things, the process of learning is through experiencing the process itself. The process...
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7 months after stroke and still no feeling or movement on left side
Hello, Everyone - My beloved aunt suffered a stroke caused by undetected atrial fibrillation in early July of 2020. She still has no feeling or movement on her left side. Wondering if anyone on here as regained their left side mobility...
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Stroke and Aphasia Recovery: Withdrawing Help Isn’t the Same as Not Helping
Dear Friends and Colleagues, “Hardening off” is the process of toughening vulnerable plants while still inside so that they can live outside successfully. The plants have to be exposed enough to feel the cold without damaging them overtly. The...
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