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| Amy Shissler My Cerebellar Stroke Recovery |
Hospitals are so much fun. It took me a while to really understand what happened to me. When I was in the hospital and had been told I had a stroke, I didn’t get it. I just knew I could barely speak. I started comparing myself to everyone I knew that had had a stroke, which you sooooo cannot do. I even compared myself to my dog. My dog, Cassie, had a stroke a year before I did. I think I’m the only person in the history of mankind that that has happened to. I’m so unique! :)
Anyway, I remember saying “Cassie still has deficits.” I compared myself to a dog. Ummmm. I also asked for the English version of Rosetta Stone. My dad bought me an iPad for in the hospital and I had gone on the internet and found something by a woman who had a stroke and recovered her speech using Rosetta Stone for the practice of speaking/pronouncing things. So I asked for it, I had no idea. It wasn’t for me, but I think it can be useful for some people. Months later my dad found this hilarious and said to me about asking for the English Rosetta Stone – “you didn’t forget the English language!” I’m a big fan of Tosh.0 and I was watching it in the hospital one day and Tosh had on an interview that I’ve seen since and was so obviously not real but at the time I thought it was. My brain was not working right. Aside from that viewing of Tosh.0 I had on TBS for a month straight. That was my channel of choice in the hospital. One of the biggest things I remember is for a long time it was extremely uncomfortable to turn my head. Not tilt it, just turn it. I remember being in my hospital bed and trying to look at everyone and it was awful to look to my right or left. That’s still not a favorite of mine but NOTHING like it used to be. Ahh, the good old days. :)
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