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“Whither do we go from here?”

written by Selenaq384 on 31/07/2016

Well what next? A sudden change of circumstances following an unexpected stroke can be unsettling to say the least. The problem is that one finds oneself in uncharted waters and it seems difficult to obtains answers. My overriding problem was myself understood when the initial attack left me with the handicap of temporary aphasia making me unable to communicate with any coherent mouth movement. Frustratingly thought processes were carrying on my head although it was a struggle to convince others I could still understand much that was going on.
My faculties returned to me gradually during the next day or two. Speech has remained impaired a bit during the previous four months since the stroke, but fluency and vocabulary have slowly returned accepting that I still experience the annoying habit of occasionally coming out with words that my own. It sometimes seems that my mouth is on autopilot and things rare said as intended.
I have been fortunate in not experiencing any other effects of the stroke. Cerebral disruption has been limited to speech although failure of communication at the very beginning has suggested mobility and visual which did not in fact exists.
Awareness of the differences in stroke sufferers should take account how people do vary, and how effective communication should always help individuals.