Get well soon! See, I have this retaining wall planned…
Get well soon!
Here’s hoping to a full recovery Ranger Jeff!
::sending good thoughts to my former chatroom co-host::
What’s the latest?
I used to chat with him a lot back in the old aol days… think of him often!!
Sending my best thoughts and prayers to Ranger Jeff.
I always look forward to his contributions to threads.
Get better soon! You’ll be missed.
This is the first time I’ve seen this thread. Thank you all.
Just last Friday both the Physical Therapist and the Occupational Therapist decided I did not need outpatient rehab any more. I’m not back to where I was before this happened, but I’m also not where I was right after this happened. It affected my right leg and arm. So now I walk with a cane and wear an ankle/foot orthotic, (like a brace). I don’t type very well with my right hand and the arm is a bit wobbly holding/carrying stuff. But it’s better than just hanging there,m which was what it did immediately afterwards.
So, I had 8 days in the hospital, 3 weeks and 2 days in “Acute Rehab”, which was an hour and a 1/2 hour of PT AND an hour and a 1/2 hour of PT six days a week. At a normal hospital you might get 45 minutes of each 2 or 3 days a week. I often found myself telling them “Look, you’re the pros. This is the first time I’ve ever had a stroke.” Once I got home, I had in-home PT and OT 2 or 3 times a week for about a month. November, I advanced to out-patient therapy starting out as 45 minutes of PT then OT twice a week and then in March I went to 45 minutes each one a week.
Oh, PT has mostly been about my leg; walking, sitting, standing, bending, stairs, etc. OT is about my arm and hand. Reaching, grasping, un-grasping, etc.
I’ll tell more if this thread doesn’t die of disinterest, m’kay?
Best wishes on your recovery and therapy, and thanks for the update!
I’m glad you’re on the mend.
You’ve been through quite an ordeal. Glad all the hard work is paying off.
Sending my best wishes and hopes for a full recovery.
Glad to hear you’re back!
Waves…
Hang tough.
Interest here. Push the OT as hard as you can and then some. My mom really, really worked at it and get results far better than expected. She got every gadget they recommended, got up an hour or so early every day and ran through every exercise, and then repeated. She probably did more than they asked, but she really wanted her hand function back. (She sews and knits and quits and cooks.) She’s doing really well now, past performance not guarantee of future results, etc.
I’m glad you’re back and posting. You’ve been missed. 
Jeff - My mother had a massive hemorrhagic stroke, to the point where they told us to find a good care facility to live out the rest of her days. But she fought hard to come back. Unlike you, she didn’t have any muscle weakness/paralysis - it affected the part of her brain affecting language, her vision, her memory. She started not being able to form words at all, then progressed to words, just the wrong ones. She lost her ability to read, and identify numbers and colors.
She went to inpatient rehab first, doing everything they asked and more. They told her that most people start rehab gung ho, thinking they’ll be back to normal in a few weeks. And when the progress isn’t what the patient expects, they lose their drive, and stop working at it. When she came home and started out-patient therapy, she did all the daily work, all the homework they assigned, and we were drilling her with preschool and kindergarten workbooks. They told her, “You can expect the majority of your recovery in the first 6 months”. 6 months went by and she continued to improve, learning how to read and write at her normal college level. Reading was much slower, because of the brain damage and because there was now a blind spot in the middle of her field of vision. At a year, she went in for a followup MRI. The doctor reading it ran out before she left - the doctor remembered her just from the damage she still saw in the MRI, and couldn’t believe my mother was functioning at almost her pre-stroke levels. At a year, they said she’d probably had as much recovery as she would see, but she continued to improve, and even gave talks to the stroke groups at the rehab place.
Fight hard. No one else can do it for you.
StG
Ranger Jeff, I’m glad to hear that you are on the mend. I hope it goes well and things keep improving. With all the hard work, PT and OT, hang in there and hang tough!
Welcome back Ranger Jeff! And good luck with your continued recovery!
Glad to hear you are mending, Ranger Jeff. I had stroke a couple years ago and it isn’t something I would wish on anybody. I hope your recovery is complete.
I’ve been delighting in what I call my “small victories”. They add up.
Crap-I suppose you’ll be wanting your parking space back now.