I do feel like that. I wonder if it because the way the brain is recording the activities. For me, there are times when I can't find a word or remember if we did something. Usually it is not that I can't remember, I just can't remember where my brain stored it. I do think I am depressed. It is funny, I told my GP that I was depressed before I knew I had experienced a stroke.

I am going to Johns Hopkins in a couple of weeks for Neuro-psych testing. I am really hoping that I will be able to get some idea of what in my brain is not working as it should and what, if anything I can do to improve it, or just as you said, accept that this is the new me.

I talk to my husband, and he can't be more supportive. He has been wonderful in all of this. But I think that everyone looks at the physical side and do not see the typical indications of a stroke so they have difficulties in understanding that I see things every day, that just don't work they way they used to. I feel like my brain aged a decade overnight.