I hd emy srorke on 8 Jnauray thi yea. on th ehole i’v reccoeredewll but i do din i ma far less patient than i used to be. W run a small publishing company and I get vey irritated when Pdopll ask for inflammation I’ve already porvided - an example being in abotuwhy there aresoeo manyny typos in my messages- that’s the other problem, having been an it champion in my former eempleymen I can no longer operate the computer well.
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This is quite common post stroke and your are still in the early stages of recovery. Strokes can effect or have a knock-on to other parts of the brain not necessarily hit by the stroke itself.
So it can effect the moods and emotions controllers. But over the coming months, as cleanup and repairs are made, things will gradually normalise. You are just going to have to be patient with yourself.
Though you say you’ve recovered well, you are not actually recovered at all yet. Your brain is struggling to both the healing and repair as well as the demands you are putting on it. Neuro fatigue is most likely what you are experiencing, at least in part.
Yes, your keyboard skills are atrocious…at the moment, but they will improve over time and with practice. And I can say that because I was just the same myself to begin with so I understand how you feel. Though I wasn’t effected emotionally as all emotions were switched off after my mini stroke. They switched on now, but it did take a year or two and there’s still some work to be done.
Frequent rest is what’s called for, and this can sometimes be by just changing the activity you are doing at the time. Take 5 minutes out here and there to just sit and close your eyes in peace and quiet helps. It stops your brain from having to take in visual data to process, thus alleviating some the pressure of demand to perform that you put on it.
Like I say, you are still early in your recovery. You still have a broken mind trying to heal itself. Don’t risk reopening its wounds by putting too much demand on it too soon. You are not out of the woods yet you know and you don’t want to risk another stroke. We are like babies at this stage. We get irritable, cranky and frustrated when our brain’s are over tired.
Lorraine
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I can imagine that would be infuriating for you, working in publishing. Have you played around with AI as a writing aid? Speech to text &c. I know Open AI have a Whisper app which is designed for diction and transcription. It may make life a bit easier as you focus on rehabilitating independently from work.
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I am less patient since my stroke too. I think it can happen. You really aren’t far along your recovery journey yet and time will help things settle & your typing will improve. Given your occupation I imagine it us very frustrating for you.
When I returned to work I had software added to my computer that I talked to & it typed for me. I use ig much less now but it did get rid of my frustrations with not being able to type like I used to. Something you should conside trying until your typing skills return to normal.
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What you should do is practice typing more on here. We are more understanding of the issue you are having and your writing is decipherable. It not conducive to publishing just now. I know your stroke affected your vision and what you intend to write is perfectly straight in your head. But not all brain’s mechanisms to reproduce that into text are just there yet.
There’s no use getting angry and impatient with yourself, because this is going to be a long drawn out process to regaining those abilities. And the only thing it is doing you is raising your levels of stress and blood pressure. And that is not conducive to the health of your brain.
I don’t know if it would be a help to set a a brief footnote to your correspondence. Stating that you have some temporary issues after your stroke that will need and patience to recover from…or something along those lines. And @Rups suggestion for using AI to dictate would certainly reduce some of that stress.
But it hasn’t changed your personality, this stroke has thrown it off kilter for a time
Lorraine
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It’s odd how the brain works. I watched a program how the brain automatically corrects words and thus I could read your post almost seamlessly. As an example:
“Tihs is a smaple snetecne to tset yuor brian’s abiltiy to corrcet mitskaes.”
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Hi @caggygill , like others have said it is a change to the way our brains are wired or something similar. I was already poorly wired having dyslexia and short term memory issue but a good counsellor for stroke pysch helped me.
I see you said you work in publishing , I have used talk to type software and scanning tools to help (this was just to piss of a prissy manager) but by eck made formatting documents a dream, so much so was left on for my colleagues too- see manger comments and they loved it. Don’t know if this would help.
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mty eyssifht is perfectehn I wear my glasses.I do chek eeok aft I’ve trped but don’;t see the errors as a so someenon esell sayy my brain corrects them. ATT least it’s doing that.
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It will come back again, it just takes time. How are you with reading. For me it was all 3, reading, writing as well as speach. They’ve all come back over the first couple of years.
But I do still find I drop letters and words in my typing. It’s weird because they are there when I type them…think I’ve typed them. Even as read back to double, triple check all the words are in the sentence at the time. But then I can go away and come back to it and realise there are letters/words missing 
It is a whole lot better now but I still can’t trust myself fully so have to check, check and check again 
The only suggestion I have to offer to make it a bit easier is to keep sentences short and simple. Which is what I also had to do for my speach.
Lorraine
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Our brains correct your type. I don’t know if your brain does, I assume so. After stroke, I can miss essential verbs and tense in sentences. As a prior English teacher, I can only be hard on myself, but I be so willingly. Enjoy engaging and communicating, forget the formalities for now. If you are finding the challenges and the obstacles rewarding to try and overcome, you are on your way.
Language is not a badge, it is just inherent, no matter how you wish to or can use it.
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@caggygill - as everyone has said, you are doing incredibly well and everyone is understanding each other.
This conversation reminds me of a time when many years ago when I sent out a message on my 3G mobile phone in a hurry. Being a tech dinosaur, I hadn’t worked out predictive text which I thick was in it’s infancy at the time and so I would have had to type the message “long hand”, but as I was pushed for time, I typed it short hand.
This was the message I typed. I am willing to bet if you put your mind to it, you will work out what I said. However, the person I sent it to (a work colleague) and the rest of the team failed to decipher it and I had to explain it when I got back to the office 
Tgd pgmp ajmpddp at j pm. c u gm a agt.
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Actually I didn’t get it either. Mind you I’m just brain weary after an afternoon of battling with traffic everywhere. I thought there’d been a evacuation after the elections and nobody had told … because I was too busy being stuck in traffic 
Lorraine
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Okay here goes:
I will be late to the office because I have just finished competing in a pie fight and need to wash off the cream and sponge. See you all soon.
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