in the beginning

Okay let's talk about my initial symptoms which I mentioned previously
both arms, legs not moving
eyes not opening.
speech slurred.
not able to process data
could not turn my head to the left

okay could not move neither one of my arms or my legs or my feet or my hands could not make a fist nor could I wiggle my toes today some 18 months later I have full movement of my right arm and my right leg and I would say approximately 5 to 10% movement in my left arm and my left leg I really miss wiggling my toes on my left foot is quite a joy to do so with my right foot which I am doing right now as I type
the movement of my right side returned rather quickly before I left the first hospital I do not recall how soon exactly I don't even know how many days or weeks I was in that first hospital I suppose I could ask someone before I published this cut is currently 5 a.m. so I don't want to wake anyone up for something so trivial
okay my eyes not opening now my pop could probably talk on this better than I ever could if my memory serves me correctly he was the most frustrated about me not opening my eyes and was not afraid to encourage me to open my eyes I don't know if I couldn't or if I just wouldn't I do remember my dad practically begged me to open them thinking back on it perhaps I was afraid of what I might see if I open my eyes but I did eventually open them probably on the second ord third day I did not like what I saw I was in a hospital room or bed probably both I had to IVs in one arm and one in the other i wase wearing the famous hospital night gown, I think, I might have been just been naked my dad was there along with Amelia and nursing staff were scurring inand out of the area maybe I thought I was having a bad dream and did not want to wake up until it started getting good I do not remember any pain being involved with the eye opening
slurred speech I cannot verify this but I think that another might and I'll have to talk to her about it before publishing. But since I have a serious Problem with Dragon I can only suspect that my speech is not 100% recovered I can tell you that I never have to repeat myself at the McDonald's drive-through nor the Whataburger drive-through nor the Taco Bell drive-through but there have been times like at target or Wal-Mart when I'm asking for help from an employee, I am required to repeat myself to be understood
processing data my job before stroke was as a systems analyst which entailed maintaining mainframe software applications I did a lot of data analysis as part of my testing process it was second nature to me I did not always enjoy it but overall it was fun and paid the bills
at stroketime and now even I cannot process data very well for example: decision making the first decision I recall having to make poststroke was which rehab hospital to go to this decision seemed to be very important to the doctors and nurses asking me to make this decision I had never been to a rehab hospital nor had I ever wanted to go to a rehab hospital so my answer to them was simply send me to the best one now this decision in my mind was final but dad being dad wanted me to think about it longer I mistakenly thought he would do some research on the three available rehab hospitals and get back with me with information however this was not the case the only data that he could come up with for me to process was witch hospital would be easier for him to get to and also my friend amelia. So that is how I decided on which rehab hospital to go to
turning my head to the left at the time of the stroke and for approximately 1 month after I could not or would not turn my head to the left it was not because I couldn't physically turn my head to the left it was because my brain had decided there was no reason to turn my head to the left doctors told me it is called left side neglect basically your brain is tricked into thinking you do not have a left side so if someone were talking to me while standing to be on the left i would freak out just a bit also I tended to walk into a lot of door jams once I started walking I also remember scratching my left side abdomen area when my left arm itched. it was and is a weird phenomena

But most of that was then and now things are different they are better I do turn my head to the left i tend to need to when I drive.
Today I can walk it's not a very pretty walk but I can walk no cane no walker its more of a hobble but I get where I'm going once i sett my mind to it I don't like walking very far because I get tired very easily since my right side is overcompensating for my left side my right hip can get quite sore its most painful

peace