Text 92, 91 rader
Skriven 2005-04-17 00:36:11 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
     Kommentar till text 90 av James Bradley (1:134/77.0)
Ärende: -Plegias  2A.
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Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

JB>  Well, that's at least a side benefit of hospitals -
JB>  the camaraderie. /-:


        Uh-huh.  One of the reasons we started this echo was that we saw people
going home to small communities where there was nobody else who had experienced
what they had... and we felt an alternative meeting place might be useful.  :-)



JB>  I was about ten, when I was incarcerated with two
JB>  broken forearms.  Across from me, another kid with
JB>  two broken forearms. Both of us daredevils!


        It doesn't surprise me to hear that about you... [chuckle].



JB>  He only broke one bone at first though, and as soon
JB>  as he was released, he got right back on the same
JB>  wagon, onto the same hill, and busted up his other arm!


        I wonder about such individuals... but then I tend to do the same thing
with words & ideas.  Sometimes I get hurt.  And sometimes I find folks like you
whom I wouldn't have met otherwise.  Nothing ventured, nothing gained....  :-))



AH>  As I understand the situation, this type of repair occurs
AH>  within the same hemisphere.

                             [...]

JB>  Ah, right. I forget where I got the notion of the opposite
JB>  hemisphere... Likely from another afliction.


        Maybe.  Or maybe it's because, generally speaking, the right hemisphere
controls the left side & vice versa.  People often find that confusing....  :-)



JB>  I just *know* you two are conscious of body language,
JB>  and when Nora speaks of "Getting over the stroke..."
JB>  you don't give any subconscious messages.


        Thankyou.  I don't believe we do either....  :-)



JB>  I couldn't imagine the road you're on, but I'm sure
JB>  you want to encourage any progress possible.


        Yes.  Although you haven't experienced this particular condition... and
although you may find the medical details confusing sometimes... you've grasped
the important part.  *You understand what we're trying to accomplish*.  I don't
know how much Nora will recover, but I think it's important to make the effort.

        I'll use an analogy with dogs here because I suspect that (unlike those
who regard canines as inferior beings) you'll see the similarities between them
& us.  I've heard it said that dogs understand very little English apart from a
few simple commands like "sit" & "stay", for example... but I've also read some
research results indicating they understand about as much as the average three-
year-old.  Lady... a Great Pyrenees who shared our home years ago... understood
"I have to get up at seven o'clock to take my insulin" well enough to insist on
waking a visitor at the appointed hour even though he wasn't talking to her.  I
always spoke to Lady as I would to a child, however, on the theory that neither
dogs nor humans understand English well if they have nobody to teach them.  :-)



AH>  Then they got the OT & the PT to figure out how to
AH>  get Nora out of bed & into a chair

JB>  OT, + PT?


        Occupational therapist & physiotherapist.  They specialize in different
aspects of recovery from strokes etc., and work together in such cases....  :-)




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