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Cerebellar Stroke - experience/treatment/recovery
Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases | Last Active: May 5 11:27pm | Replies (515)Comment receiving replies
I too am in IT and the cognitive issues are what bothers me the most right now. Being what I consider a highly intelligent person, and now not even being able to come up with the correct word for something is so annoying. I know my neurologist keeps saying it could take up to a year, but I am a very impatient person and just feel like if I work hard enough it should be fine NOW. The last visit he told me to take it easy and that there's is such a thing as 'too much'. That I need time for my brain to figure out new pathways.
You are exactly right about the repetition of things - I started doing that in therapy now, and it helps a lot!!!
I don't have the option to go back to work right now. I cannot drive and my job involves dealing with a number of people on a daily basis. I am a CSI person in charge of process improvement projects across different business groups. Not really sure I will ever be able to do that again.
I haven't found any cognitive things to help me as of yet. Word find is too easy, but suduko that I used to do is way too hard. I am a math person - not an English person.
It's nice to know your time frame...makes me feel better. I guess slow and steady wins the race. Maybe I can go back to programming and work on learning a language????
I am so happy to have found this site.
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I find there are times when a day off is a good thing! Hang in there!
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Unlike yourself the only outward disability that I have are some balance issues and a stupid annoying leak from the left side of my mouth it kind a looks likes I’m always drooling. The drugs that they have me will sometimes will make me look like I’m a little spaced out, so I tell people if I look like I’m spaced out and drooling I’m really okay and no need to call ambulance!
Everything for me is cognitive, concentration and headaches. These are all hard to be seen outward to people and therefore they think that I’m OK from the stroke. I work in the IT field has a network admin which requires lots of concentration it seems like every day something is going wrong which really builds upon the headaches.
I wife is a physical therapist at some of the classes ithat she has gone to deal with neurology rewiring the brain after trumatic brain injuries. The last class so she came from they talked about learning to play musical instruments and art as a way to re-wire the pathways and help recovery. In the evenings when I get home I find myself coloring an adult coloring books a lot it helps me turn off the brain at the end of the day and it really calms me down and calms down the brain. I’m really considering trying to learn how to play a musical instrument next.
I really hope that things do get better for you soon.