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Going to attempt to make an 'About Mad Mikey' page to explain some of the finer nuances of myself - mainly my monicker so as to make sure that everyone knows that I don't have some 'anger management issues'.
So if you get some screwed up page, it's probably cause I'm in my 'room full of chimps and a typewriter' mindset.
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John Costello said:
A large nerf ball is very useful as hand exericse. I still use it every so often. Basicall
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Mad Mikey said:
John
I'm very lucky as compared to most stroke victims - I missed the bullet(s) and so fa
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John H. Costello said:
Congratulations on being alive and still having a mind. Both of us lucked out on that, Corey Plun
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Alan Kellogg said:
So if the writing is insightful and coherent, it's the chimps.
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So if the writing is insightful and coherent, it's the chimps.
|| Posted by Alan Kellogg, March 7, 2006 08:37 AM ||Congratulations on being alive and still having a mind. Both of us lucked out on that, Corey Plunket didn't.
My stroke was just 20 years ago. I still notice aftereffects. I used to be right handed, now I'm almost ambidexterous. I used to laugh at certain things, now when I think about them deep emotion wells up and I find myself crying.
Worse, I have memory brainfarts. Unless I write something down, speak it, and force myself to remember it, the data goes vague. And sometimes I go blank on a word and have to work my way around it.
I presume you already have the NERF balls. My right hand was partially frozen and I had to start off jerking my whole right side for hours a day in the hospital bed before I was able to get first, control of the hand, then the fingers. Eventually I got a computer typing tutor program and got control of my fingers (I used to type with four fingers before the stroke, now I can do all ten.)
My English handwriting was passable, now it is utterly wretched. My Russian handwriting, learned as an adult and therefore not so centrally localized in my brain (distributed, like the Internet!) survived and I find it easier to use semi-cyrillic characters when I handwrite.
On the day of the stroke and the day after my eyesight suffered. I had taken some Russian SF fanzines (then newly legal) with me to the hospital and I could not disginguish between certain letters. That lasted two or three days.
It only took me a day to re-master chop sticks, but unless I am actually thinking about holding something in my right hand I sometimes go slack and drop it. That doesn't happen with chopsticks and food.
I had a fairly quick recovery -- I was back at work in a month -- but I still have problems. One's spincter muscles are controlled by both sides of the brain and one side doesn't work all that well. If your doctor gives you a diuretic for blood pressure control, watch out!
I suspect you don't need this advice, but when people try to help you, stare at them and thank them and tell them to go away. The frustration and inconvenience work as superb motivations, and if you find doing something you used to do difficult now, you're going to have to exercise your body to be able to do it.
|| Posted by John H. Costello, March 7, 2006 07:45 PM ||And good luck and congratulations on beating the Grim Reaper again.
John
I'm very lucky as compared to most stroke victims - I missed the bullet(s) and so far (knock on wood) haven't suffered any sort of permenant damage except for being as weak as a two-day old kitten; the weakness is from being in the coma for several weeks and then being basically confined to my hospital bed by the mobility Nazis who were afraid that I would take a head-dive into floor.
I have noticed that my signature is a little 'wobbly'. I'm not fluent in it, but I'm remembering alot of my basic Spanish. My highschool German is a lost cause for the moment.
I was having short-term memory problems before the stroke - problem is still there and I'm learning to work around it myself.
While I haven't really 'challenged' myself mentally (I was able to do calculus in my head, much to the amazment of my friends), but what I'm kind of worried about is my ability to play my bass guitar. I'm working on getting it tweaked/tuned up soon and will see if I can still remember some of the riffs that came natually. More on that when it happens/doesn't happen.
Nerf ball? No such animals yet.
...stare at them and thank them and tell them to go away.
LMAO!!! Excellent advice!!!
Thanks for the advice and encouragement - it really helps!
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, March 8, 2006 08:37 AM ||
|| Posted by John Costello, March 8, 2006 08:17 PM ||A large nerf ball is very useful as hand exericse. I still use it every so often. Basically drum your fingers into the nerf ball one after the other and keep it up for a while. The nerf fights back; I used to alternate that and Typing Tutor. I suspect the guitar fingering exericses will do that for you.
The weakness is standard for a week or three in bed. Time yourself to see how long you can sit up at your computer, and try longer and longer each day. Keep out of bed if you can, but if you're exhausted just sleep.
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