Better

With cooler weather, I'm feeling a bit more normal: not energetic, but not as drained, disoriented, worried, as I've been for much of the last week.

There may be a slightly embarrassing unpredictability about my more volatile reactions which may be slightly out of my control... I do wonder if the stroke has had any effect on my emotions. If so, I assume it's temporary.

I will admit, although I keep emphasizing (rather aggressively) that the main remaining symptom is a blind patch in my eyesight (apparently I'm no longer allowed to drive unless it clears up? – but then I haven't owned a car since 1992), that I'm still struggling with proper names, phone numbers, and the like – essentially, more recently learned information. I keep hesitating with people's names – but when I guess, I'm always right, at least so far; it's just that all those names and numbers look unfamiliar in a strange way, as though they might just as well be something else.

I had an interesting time remembering passwords and such at the end of last week... I wonder if an aging computer-oriented population will lead to some unusual strategies?...

It's also irritating to handle minor treatment problems. (Why in the world do so many British-made medicines include lactose? Because only foreigners are allergic to it?...)

But I suppose I can fit another set of habits, needs, and mild annoyances into the ones I already go through for the illnesses to which I'm already heir....

Well, as you can see: I am still a bit grumpy. I suppose they call that continuity.

Comments

[Liz King]

Good point about the passwords. Someone had better get retinal scans or thumbprint recognition onto banking machines soon!

I have posted to the last couple comments but I suspect that they didn't "take" because, I now notice, my name is required and I don't think I ever added it.

All best wishes.