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Post by Jebediah on Nov 20, 2011 16:53:30 GMT -5
I hope you make a speedy recovery. Good luck!
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Post by Old Viking on Nov 20, 2011 17:33:47 GMT -5
My keyboard went goofy on me earlier this evening.
Hard news, LHM. Here's to a quick and speedy recovery.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Nov 20, 2011 20:42:13 GMT -5
It bodes very well for your recovery that you're back to posting on the internet so quickly. Get well soon and do so fully.
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Post by itachirumon on Nov 20, 2011 20:49:18 GMT -5
You be careful dude, I have MoyaMoya so I had a lot of petit mal seizures when I was a little kid - they're hoping it doesn't happen anymore. 33 is way WAY too young for a stroke *hugs* - what everyone else says, it's good that you're already back to firing order just about, keep resting and recover yourself, we're all pullin' for ya.
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Post by lighthorseman on Nov 21, 2011 22:38:41 GMT -5
OK, so its been a week. My right side is roughly 80%, my left significantly less.
I can speak well enough to be understood, although in terms of affect and tone, I sound like a moron. I have just started back on clear fluids after a week on an NG tube. It's frustrating to me, but every day is an improvement,and it all could have been much worse. If any of my patients were progressing at my speed, I'd be thrilled, but when it's your own left hand you can't raise, "rate of improvement" becomes highly relative.
I have 100% cognitive function, "I" am still "here", which I guess is the important part. Still no explaination as to the "why" yet, but definitely an ischemic cerebral infarct (at first they thought it was a tick bite).
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Nov 22, 2011 0:28:55 GMT -5
Your typing is drastically improved from a few days ago, so I'd say that your recovery is going along extremely well.
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Post by ironbite on Nov 22, 2011 3:40:36 GMT -5
Soon you'll be back to making nonsensical posts about how Armor wins the day in every battle, ever.
Ironbite-even when it doesn't and we can all giggle at you.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Nov 22, 2011 4:23:23 GMT -5
Happy to hear that you're progressing so quickly, LHM. From the sounds of it, you'll be back to normal in no time.
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Post by Armand Tanzarian on Nov 22, 2011 5:40:05 GMT -5
I have 100% cognitive function, "I" am still "here", which I guess is the important part. Still no explaination as to the "why" yet, but definitely an ischemic cerebral infarct (at first they thought it was a tick bite). Good to hear you're functioning again, but explain to us non-doctors, what's that? I'm just asking partly because my grandfather died of a stroke. I'm always curious as to the risk factors.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Nov 22, 2011 5:58:38 GMT -5
^^ Fancy way of saying a blockage caused a loss of blood flow to part of the brain.
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Post by lighthorseman on Nov 22, 2011 7:13:35 GMT -5
Pretty much what Mme. AC said, ischemia is a lack of 02, infarct is resulting tissue death, just like a myocardial infarct is death in heart tissue due to lack of oxygen. In the brain though, it tends to be called "stroke". Something (often a clot, but can be other things like a plaque, or even an air bubble) lodges in blood vessel long enough for the tissue it supplies to die. The severity depends on the size of the blood vessel it lodges in. A "big" stroke involves a major blood vessel being blocked for a long time. A minor stroke happens in a small vessel that supplies a lesss important area. So you could have a minor one and never notice.
The big risk factors, like for everything, is age (95% of strokes occur in people age 45 and older, and two-thirds of strokes occur in those over the age of 65), smoking, drinking, obeseity and diabetes. there is also a tendenct for it to run in families. Or you can get occasional outliers where an otherwise healthy, youngish, non smoking, non drinker with no known family history who regularly exercises goes tits up. Because fuck the lottery, I wanna be that guy!
Yes I know I sound bitter. Now, back to trying to play RTSs and FPSs one handed.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Nov 22, 2011 7:31:01 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, have you suffered any trauma to one of your legs recently? Sometimes DVTs can dislodge and migrate to the heart, brain, lungs, etc. Though those are more likely to cause pulmonary issues than a stroke, so I dunno.
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Post by lighthorseman on Nov 22, 2011 7:54:42 GMT -5
Out of curiosity, have you suffered any trauma to one of your legs recently? Sometimes DVTs can dislodge and migrate to the heart, brain, lungs, etc. Though those are more likely to cause pulmonary issues than a stroke, so I dunno. Good question. Not that I can think of, and believe me, I've wondered about every bruise I've ever had, last coupla days. But no, not that I can think of, and all the MRIs, MRAs, CT scans and lumbar punctures I've had tell us what went wrong, just not what caused it, or why.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Nov 22, 2011 8:39:44 GMT -5
Well, I hope they can at least trace it to a likely cause, even if they can't figure out exactly what went wrong. Also, since I know how much they suck (and because it's a sign of progress) I'm going to extend a big "congrats" to you for having had the NG tube removed. I bet you're feeling a million times more comfortable now that it's gone.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Nov 22, 2011 8:54:01 GMT -5
Now, back to trying to play RTSs and FPSs one handed. If you have a joystick most flight/space sims are quite playable with one hand. Maybe that'll help make gaming while recovering more bearable.
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