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Fatigue After Stroke

Fatigue After Stroke

Having a stroke is a traumatic experience and if you’re like me staying in hospital is not much fun either. When you finally get home, again drawing from my own experience, you will feel exhausted. Not just physically, but  emotionally as well so it can be difficult to identify fatigue after a stroke. Fatigue After Stroke After a reasonable time, if you still feel exhausted speak to your Doctor. Don’t leave it and just assume it’s normal. Listen to your body, sleep when you need to, but take care because it could be fatigue. What Is Fatigue? According to  Oxford… → Read More

Stroke recovery encouraging words

The following was sent to me recently and I wanted to share it here as it has helped me to understand what’s happening to me and I hope it will help others. There is a chapter in a Book on Stroke by Wallace Sife, a New Yorker ‘poet, humanist and psychologist’. “The intense sense of personal loss parallels the psychological reactions one has when grieving the death of a loved one. Indeed, there is a bereavement; in a sense, the old self has died. The loss is intense and traumatic. But this too will pass, if one’s potential courage and… → Read More