Attitude in rehab really matters. My father-in-law had a stroke at about age 80 and went into a really good rehab program. He did much better than some lads in their 30s because of his determination.
Best wishes for a speedy and full recovery! And, of course, thank you for all the good work on LilyPond! On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 1:11 PM, Graeme St.Clair < graeme_st_cl...@atlanticbb.net> wrote: > Stroke: been there, but I think not so bad as yours. Probably superfluous > advice, but do take your rehab work seriously - when I was doing that, I > saw so many people who just seemed to be going through the motions. I > found my right hand suffered the most (of course, I was and am r-handed!), > so getting my writing hand going again was important, tho it took about 3 > months - my writing now has a bit of a tremor, but is recognisable again as > my handwriting. > > One of the things that would have been useful, but was not exercised, was > simply pouring - milk, coffee, whatever. Also, grasping with the bad hand > is OK, because you quickly learn to be careful, but letting go of something > *also* needs care - I've lost count of the number of times I've nearly > dragged something back off the shelf I just put it on. Yes, you will > likely need to use a handrail on stairs. I've found it most convenient to > walk around the house barefoot (my foot Dr doesn't like this!), but this > does make steps a little tricky. Some kind of footwear makes stairs a lot > easier. > > The subtlest effect was on my voice - I can no longer whistle (! - and I > used to be good at it), my singing voice (bass), which was pretty solid > even at low volume, really now only sounds good at 'f' or above - lost 2 or > 3 top notes too. I should probably have paid more attention to the various > tongue exercises that were given. > > HTH, with very best wishes for a good recovery, GFStC, Altoona, PA. > > -----Original Message----- From: David Kastrup > Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 5:38 AM > To: Thomas Morley > Cc: lilypond-devel ; lilypond-u...@gnu.org > Subject: Re: Calling in for sickness > > > Thomas Morley <thomasmorle...@gmail.com> writes: > > Dear David, >> >> 2017-05-15 18:42 GMT+02:00 David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org>: >> >> l >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> had a sort of apoplexy and will not be able to do anything while >>> recovering. I am hospitalized at the moment, CRT and MRT did not show >>> any specific anomalies but my right side is hampered and I cannot yet >>> swallow or cough which is sort of inconvenient. >>> >>> >> terrible news. >> >> I wish you all the best and I hope you'll get better soon. >> >> >> >>> Hope this gets to you. >>> >>> >> With one day delay. >> > > I set the computer up to send the message on Monday and handed it over > but wasn't successful at first attempt. > > Now out of the hospital for a few days, then I'll be into "Reha" > (physical therapy) for some weeks. > > It was a stroke in the limbic region. Mouth and left side are no longer > temperature sensitive (and there is a loss of pain in some regions > resulting in a loss of protective reflexes), motor balance is off (I > keel to the right when walking, left when crawling), smile is more > skewed than before, right face half feels somewhat rigid and numb. > > Swallowing is business now or things will get stuck. Which is > particularly inconvenient since coughing still doesn't work, becoming > more of a wheeze. > > Walking is quite impaired, bicycling not yet back on the radar. > > Accordion works better than feared but the right hand cramps up when > doing "weird" hand shapes typical for button accordion. I'll probably > need to practice scales a lot. > > I need to relearn some habits to deal with the changes: when walking > upstairs the first time in the hospital I glanced at a magazine in the > right hand and just went for the stairs without bothering about the > handrail. Wasn't thinking anything really. Quite embarrassing to > explain to the people bearing witness to the result. > > The day before yesterday, I shaved again with a straight razor. With > the reduced motor control, I expected the largest danger to be from > cutting myself. That part actually went without a hitch: but trying to > temperate the water for making shaving foam got me to notice the > complete absence of heat sensitivity in the left hand. Fortunately, > hospital bathroom water does not reach scalding temperatures. > > Retraining motor skills in order to regain some of the lost capacities > is really exhausting, and there is a bit of competition for brain space > after the small section shut down: as some things get a bit more back on > track, others not obviously related take a hit (like the cramping-up > business when playing accordion, also developing in some other > departments). So one needs to fool around a lot in order to keep > capacity loss in check and balanced with ongoing interests and > priorities. > > Hopefully I can be back soonish. >>> >>> >> Please, take your time (_and_ some more) to recover, I don't want to >> see you here before !! >> > > Even now before formal physical therapy I don't have that much time I > can spend with the computer since an hour sitting down is an hour wasted > for getting the new brain stem configuration rewired before it settles > down again. And even if I considered computer work my top priority: > I need to get enough physical capacity back in order to be able to > integrate some exercise regimen into my daily life or the next > comparable incident is bound to stop the computer work short as well. > > So in short: I need to ask you to hang in with me while I regain my > footing here. I won't likely be able to contribute anything timely or > of significance until the end of physical therapy (facilities for that > are far enough away that I'll have to sleep in). > > After that, I should at least be available again for some guidance in > programming matters (I managed to glance over the user list yesterday > and noticed several threads which might have warranted some reply from > me in order to move to the best track for a satisfactory solution > dealing with the users' needs but have to postpone for now). > > There are some things I want to finish work on, but I think that the > next point will be for me to branch for 2.20: I think that even with the > current situation, it makes sense for me to try shaping the final > efforts once I am back at the desk. > > I'll have to take score of everything that has been done without my > attention in place (which does include some past work) and decide which > parts would be more prudent to revert in the branch for the sake of a > stable release. > > So now would be a good time for documentors and translators to step up > their efforts. > > Thanks for all your efforts, and for your understanding, for your words > and deeds of support, and for your contributions in making LilyPond > prosper as a great piece of Free Software for articulating beautiful > music. > > -- > David Kastrup > > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-u...@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user > _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
