need to make some corrections
d'huit
according to my ortho (lost a bit of memory, details and my sense of time,
which should hopefully improve eventually), i need to make a couple of
corrections.
it's only been 2 months to the day since i fell and broke this leg (june
19th), not the almost 3 months i thought it was. i only spent 8 days (june
19th -27th) in trauma care and not 2 weeks; only spent one month & 5 days
(june 27th - aug.1st) and not one and a half months. have also been having
a bit of trouble calculating, it seems.
hey, the good thing about having hit my head is that things now make
sense.LOL! i mean knowing that i did hit my head makes those things that
didn't make sense to me now makes sense. i'll make other corrections as i
become aware of my errors.
kate
Jofirey
"d'huit" <threec...@comcast2.net> wrote in message
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It does mean you didn't rely on your family and friends to help out as
much as you think you did, and that means you can ask if you need
additional assistance.
Institutional medical care really makes the time drag and seem like
eons. Four days feels like a week and it goes on from there.
Just as an example, I know for a fact that a twenty minute physical
therapy session takes all afternoon. (And no way those fools are
touching me before noon)
A reminder for the other caffene adicts out there. It might make
consciosness possible, but it also puts the pain receptors on alert.
Some days you have to choose your pain.
Jo
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d'huit
"Jofirey" <jof...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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Jo
well, i suppose the time thing could be related to the isolation of
institutionalization. but . . . there were lots of things i didn't know
that i couldn't remember and had to be told . . . like that my grandson had
even been here and spent the entire day with me up to my fall or what we did
together before i fell (now, THAT was very unsettling for me, because i'm
nutty about my grandson and eat up every detail about him; like having had
the xrays and mri's done or how i got to the hospital; that i had even hit
my head until i was told i did (i thought i protected my head); lots and
lots of details about that day and immediately afterwards that i should have
easily remembered. even my everyday basic math skills seem to be in some
kind of warped mode and have become challenging (and i scored 148 in math on
stanford benet a few decades ago; it was my highest quotient.). in the
nursing center, i remember feeling like there seemed to be lots of detail
oriented mysteries that i needed to solve and i didn't know why they were
mysteries. i relied upon my son and nephew to fill in the blanks for me,
but still couldn't remember them myself. so, i feel like i just parroted
when asked about those things. it was disconcerting and disorienting for me
for awhile there. i still feel like i'm doing a lot of parroting.
kate
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DeeTee
olds-heimers, etc. Fortunately, it's not as bad or as scary as what you're
going through. I was trying to remember which channels were which stations
and couldn't remember one that we use every single day. I reached for the
remote to find out and Bob grabbed my hand. He made me fight through the fog
until I could remember it. That was a slightly scarey moment, but he said I
need to exercise the brain so it doesn't get worse.
DeeTee (uhm, what was my point?)
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Donna G.
Kate,
I had a lot of that right after my stroke, and to this day continue to
have a little of it. It is very unsettling and a bit scarey too not
being able to remember certain things and not knowing exactly how
something happened or how you got somewhere, etc. I still have problems
with some of the short term memory things, especially when I am really
tired. I have to ask doctors all the time now to write things down for
me or I will forget by the time I walk out of the exam room. Sometimes
it's a bit embarassing. Since I was alone when I had my stroke, I have
come to the realization that I will never know completely what all
happened or how everything initially played out. And, even after
knowing some of the stuff that others provided the info, it is still to
this day frustrating not being able to remember it on my own.
A few months ago, I was out driving and doing errands, when I turned on
my wipers in the van to wash the windshield. Well, then I couldn't
remember how to turn the wipers off. After about 15-20 minutes, I
finally pulled off the road and sat there until I figured it out, but it
sure does shake you up and scare you. I mentioned this to both my pcp
and my rehab doctor and neither felt it was all that big of a deal.
Hopefully yours will all come back to you as your brain heals itself.
Although, I suspect a bit of shock probably played into all of this for
you too!
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Donna
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"d'huit" <threec...@comcast2.net> wrote in message
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ANN M
My best friend, Helen, fell on her wet kitchen floor last September and
knocked herself out. Her husband got her to the hospital and they did
cat scan etc and said she had a mild concussion. She was really freaked
out about not remembering who she was talking to on the phone when she
fell and other details before and after her accident. The neurologist
she checked in with told her if her memory of it were going to come back
it might take 3 months and if it didn't come back at all she shouldn't
worry about it.
Guess what I want to say is, don't sweat the memory stuff if all else is
healing well.
Ann
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Nann Bell
(in message <cMqdnYXXdLJGbDfV...@comcast.com>):
> hey, the good thing about having hit my head is that things now make
> sense.LOL! i mean knowing that i did hit my head makes those things that
> didn't make sense to me now makes sense. i'll make other corrections as i
> become aware of my errors.
I'd say that knowing you hit your head gives you an excuse for not
remembering it all clearly, whereas the rest of us just look stupid when we
do such things. And add a bump on the head to the unreality of time when you
are hospitalized and trying to recover, and it all makes sense - so to speak.
I say give yourself some more recovery time before worrying about any
permanent changes. Right now you don't have many of you normal cues to help
your body & mind situate themselves. (hey, i just discovered that if you
fail to type the "ms" of themselves, you have the elves.)
I bumped my head & had a minor concussion in a car accident 30 years ago.
There is a time period before the accident that I have never remembered -
even when going through the same exit again. Everyone at the hospital i
worked for at the time told me that's fairly common with bumped heads.
--
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around the fall part. And it will take your brain a while to recover from
any bruising it received, so just be extra careful about you calculating for
a while until you see how things go.
As for feeling like you are just parroting.... without being mean, get used
to it. If you don't remember those details right around the fall now,
chances are you never will. Personally, wiht the couple of blank spots in my
memory, I tell folks I have no memory of what happened, but am told that such
& such took place. With a fall as severe as yours, others will understand.
You need to be understanding with ourself about it also.
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On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:56:20 -0400, d'huit wrote
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