General Discussion

It is still scary but I can talk, I can walk, I did a panel at one of the State University's and was able to keep the brain doing what I needed it to do. I have to search for words often, my spelling is now atrocious as my brain needs to look up things to make sure I am right. Those things we do on auto pilot are the issue. My auto pilot is off. If I'm opening a door, my brain is going through the steps of how a door knob works. It does it a couple of times for new things I haven't done since the stroke, words I haven't used since the stroke. Once things are double checked, I move on to double check the next thing.

For a quick talker, who weaves stories to make a bigger picture, getting slowed down to double check if it is "their" or "there" or an I before an e is kind of.... startling. But I don't think anyone notices but me.