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| Amy Shissler My Cerebellar Stroke Recovery |
Thanks for a great weekend Barb and Tom!
Everything about post-stroke life is very monotonous. Everything. When I first had the stroke and for about a year and a half afterward my speech was incredibly monotone and I had an insanely flat affect. I couldn’t express emotion. I had emotions -and lots of them – but to the outside world it didn’t appear that way. I think the only emotion the world could see was when I cried. I cried all the time. Now things are very very different. I’m able to be very expressive. My external voice matches my internal one. For a long time, it did not. During the first year or two after something like this, no matter where in the brain your injury was, I think something similar to this might be a problem not because of the area of the brain that was injured but because there was a major brain insult. But I’m not a brilliant neurologist so I don’t know for sure. I was not affected cognitively at all but it sure seemed like I was that first year because my brain as a whole was injured and recovering from being very swollen. My brain just wasn’t right. I mean my brain is still not right but the effects are much different now that I’m chronic. But I wasn’t dumb or a different person, I was injured.
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