Thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing this. It is so "validating" to know that someone else experiences the similar symptoms. Your descriptions seems a whole lot like my experience. I was just reluctant to reach out because alot of persons have it so much worse than mine. I feel like I would be complaining because there are so many much worse off. My experience has been more in my "thinking" and "cognitive" than the outside obvious injury. I do have a little bit of trouble with my right three fingers on my right hand and my right arm, shoulder, hip and foot, but for the most part, I am ambulatory. I am not going to list everything but I would say that most I deal with balance in a car when riding, I drive to the right because I think my perception is off. I get overstimulated so easy even in menial tasks. If too many things are going on, like tv and telephone call and someone talking, I can't have good perception because my mind is too busy. That's when my speech suffers the most. I can be doing fine in the morning when I wake, and a phone call come in and I answer and immediately my speech will be dysartric. My neurologist says its called "flooding" and I just have no filter/buffer. Forget the grocery store. Too many people. I will stop at that because I feel like I am complaining again. I promise I'm not, it's just things I wonder if someone else deals with. I apologize.

I want to thank you for your positive words and encouragement. That means so much. I appreciate it. I would like to say that I am a very positive person and my "faith" has helped me in so many ways. AND the fact that I just try to "make light" of myself when I do something that seems a little crazy. I try to make fun of myself. The Word says "laughter" is good like a medicine so I focus on laughter. I love to laugh.

Many thanks.
Barbara