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| Kate AllattA Rocky Stroke Recovery |
My therapeutic OT was about me practising every day tasks (which were extremely boring) such as making my hospital bed (with sheets. I mean who needs to know that now in life?) or how to make a cup of tea or how to measure out cake ingredients for a Victoria Sponge (when you do everything by gut instinct in the kitchen normally) or how to get dressed or even make an elaborate wooden birds nest, etc…Well this is exactly what I did in 2010!
However, research states that therapeutic OT & NeuroPhysio NOW should rightly be about repetition, frequency & intensity of an ACTION, (as opposed to the tasks above.)
Well, I figured this out too, when I wasn’t making birds’ nests!
However, I called it ‘willing’ as I was just a LAY stroke patient. (Don’t we often know more than the medics anyway?)You see I used to visualise being at the fun-fair doing the test-of-strength-game. I used to imagine my nerves growing each day from my brain to my left big toe. If I could just make my big left toe move to my order, that being the farthest from my brain, then GAME-ON for the rest of my lifeless left side! Fact.
The day my big left toe woke up, it was like me hitting the bell in the test-of-strength game! I was euphoric.
See the evidence for yourself in my 1st internationally published – Running Free Amazon.
The answer, to me, was not only instinctive desperateness, but bloody obvious to me back then, as I tried to think of a way to wake up my lifeless body in hospital, in order to return home to my beloved kids.(Still the new ‘developments’ can only be good for all those connected to must help pay the salaries for all the neuroscience and stroke.)
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