Yes, I can tell you more. He has had therapy and is still going to his therapy sessions, but his health insurance is at the point where they are trying to drop him. He speaks and thinks correctly, but has a little trouble remembering certain things. He has made great improvement from what I see. I wasn't in his life when the stroke occured, I only came back in contact with him within the past few weeks. From what he tells me, he was bed ridden for a few months, then was in a wheelchair for several months. Now he is walking with the help of a brace on his left leg. He can walk without the brace but his knee hyperextends sometimes. Yes he had brain surgery to releive the bleeding on the brain, and from what he tells me, it was the surgeon who touched a section in his brain that caused the numbness on his left side. Yes, he takes medication for seisures. He doesn't eat as nutritiously as he should, but I'm working on that with him. I'm not a nutritionist but I know his eating habits aren't as good as they should be. He does excercise on the days when he doesn't have therapy. Funny thing, he was in great shape before the stroke - an athelete - not a smoker or drinker. He has no use in his left arm at all, but it does move when he stretches the right arm. He can't wiggle the toes on his left foot or feel anything in the left leg, but can move his left leg when exercising or walking ( with a limp ).
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Yes, I can tell you more. He has had therapy and is still going to his therapy sessions, but his health insurance is at the point where they are trying to drop him. He speaks and thinks correctly, but has a little trouble remembering certain things. He has made great improvement from what I see. I wasn't in his life when the stroke occured, I only came back in contact with him within the past few weeks. From what he tells me, he was bed ridden for a few months, then was in a wheelchair for several months. Now he is walking with the help of a brace on his left leg. He can walk without the brace but his knee hyperextends sometimes. Yes he had brain surgery to releive the bleeding on the brain, and from what he tells me, it was the surgeon who touched a section in his brain that caused the numbness on his left side. Yes, he takes medication for seisures. He doesn't eat as nutritiously as he should, but I'm working on that with him. I'm not a nutritionist but I know his eating habits aren't as good as they should be. He does excercise on the days when he doesn't have therapy. Funny thing, he was in great shape before the stroke - an athelete - not a smoker or drinker. He has no use in his left arm at all, but it does move when he stretches the right arm. He can't wiggle the toes on his left foot or feel anything in the left leg, but can move his left leg when exercising or walking ( with a limp ).
Thanks for the link.
Kathryn
January 21, 2010 - 9:29amThis Comment
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