Hi all,
Just wanted to see how people feel after a full stroke and recovery after a period of time. I have a stroke 5 years ago, but being physically fit it took a couple of days to identify, I just struggled to complete sentences and my coordination had changed a lot.
I was really lucky to be honest.
I’ve never felt 100 percent since that day, and although I’ve worked hard and have a strong left and side of my body, my body really has never felt my own or the same. It’s hard to put it into words, I used to do triathlons, fitness challenges and rugby. I only really do fitness challenges now but nothing that lasts longer than 90 mins.
Recently I’ve just lost all my energy like I did after the stroke, this means I feel drained all the time and my executive function is really impacted, I can’t talk at times, find words hard to find, paper work is being harder to complete (I’m a senior manager in a special school) I do remind myself and I’m doing well, but I just wanted to know if this energy drop, physically and mentally continues.
If you met me you’d never know I had a stroke, but when I’ve mentioned it a couple of times when forgetting something, or struggling to organise myself I have had suggestions that the stroke is nothing to do with it.
I struggle to socialise with large groups of people (I never did before) and find the whole thing tiring and needing to put in a lot of effort to make small talk. My writing can be bad to, I seem to miss out all the connective words like it, a , is , of and often have to spend time checking what I write and this is becoming more tiring.
Part of me thinks this is stress of the job, we all have it, but also at times I don’t know what is the stroke and if I should be over it’s inpacts by now.
For info my stroke was caused by a hole in my heart and that has since been resolved.
The stoke ‘killed’ 2 parts of my right hand side of my brain both being the size of 50p.
Any advice would be fab.
Reading about people’s stories has been eye opening and made me realise how anything is possible after a stroke.