David, what a shock; and I hope you recover quickly and fully.
best wishes, On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:20 PM, Bockett Hunter <bockett1.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanw...@gmail.com - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
