THIS IS HOW MY BRAIN IS DOING….

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Mmmm…

If I explained right, after getting out of the surgery, I was feeling a bit confused just after walking out of the hospital. That’s the first memory I have after that surgery. I was “feeling” better and better inside the “therapy hospital” just because I was regaining consciousness from the  brain therapy, exercise and regaining strength and dexterity. Got out. Feeling better and better every day. Had the therapy that I had for months. I really am thankful for that therapy even we learned that my brain was being obnoxious and not learning too much. It was very helpful to practice. Done with that.

Now my brain… Has ChAnGeD and definitely has chosen to heal a different part of the body right now. My head looks so good and my hair looks great!

I have a lot of feelings that are changing right now. My body seems to be “slowing down” after after the brain has taken the time to heal the body on the outside. I look healed! Healed, I say, HEALED! But I can now easily say and feel that my brain is taking the time to heal itself and maybe “move” this thinking and stuff to the right-side. We ain’t done there yet. We need to work on that, Mr. Brain. I wonder when this happens if I am going to feel it?

This is crazy things that are happening. Still feeling this sort-of a small pain that I have been feeling after my brain surgery. Just feel it on the front-left side. Always there. Hasn’t gone away yet.

My head is looking good! All the skull slices will always be there there and make nice dents on the top. The one cut/slice of the skin on the front left just below the hairline is beautifully back together and cannot be shown off anymore (bummer). How’s it feel? Feels great. I was told once that the pain in the back part of the head would take up to a year to heal and pain to go away. No… Everything is good and I don’t feel a thing.

 

Lumosity

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I know, my Friday entry was all true and stressful, but I just wanted to share my Lumosity that I’ve been using on myself these last few weeks…

Been doing this Lumosity to increase the better usage of my brain with the tests/games that I am doing with it. When it comes back and tells me the best part of my brain, it says the MEMORY is much, much higher than all the other things based upon how good I can do on those type of games.

 

Memory? …uh, okay.

 

Maybe from the brain surgery stuff?    ….maybe not     ….uh, yet.

Well, it’s Friday…

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Still not being a “fast” person… as far as anything goes. In fact, as compared to the time after surgery, I have moved slower because of the way my body heals. Ugh… But it’s still interesting. Maybe this is reason why it takes me “hours” to write this stuff because of my noticeably “slower” thinking. 😉

This is Friday. Went to my final speech therapy after lunch. Met with the nice teacher/tester and she basically told me that we had everything done. She has NOTHING left for us to do. We done it all. Period. The End. As far as that goes, I agreed that we could meet at the later date further down the road and I hope we could compare as to how I am doing.

I was asked about a very large “choice” by someone… I’ll keep it to myself for right now just to think… I don’t know… Serious Stuff.

I’m so confused at this time.

I’m sure there are people on this Earth that are not thinking positively about me and my operations that I’ve been going through, as far as them believing I will be getting better. Not understanding. It’s too late to think negatively about my surgeries; rather just take the operations and healing as: “Take it as is. It’s all done.”

True, I may not be a 100% up to speed as I was just several months ago before my surgeries. This is true. But I have been told, and I believe myself, that sometime I will be again. This takes time. Believe me. There was “healing” after the original brain damage that happened 30 years-ago that took time.

This “brain healing” isn’t as quick as a healing nature for any other nature of a person’s body. THIS takes time. Trust me. Been there, done that. I’m ready to do it again, but others are NOT. PATIENCE. PATIENCE. PATIENCE.

Anyway. I finally got that thing I signed up for from the government and I have been waiting several years…   drumroll please…     da da da da…..

Naaaa… I think I’ll just be quiet about it.

Therapist Again Friday Morning…

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Last Friday, I went back to see the Therapist in the morning at 9:00. There is the difference. I can actually intelligently answer these questions in the morning.

“THE ANSWERS HAVE COME TO MIND!”

Anyway, I think I was doing extremely better than I ever have recently. Powers that can easily be shown off in the morning. Well, that is the “powers” I have for about an hour or less. When that runs out, my body and brain are going “quickly downhill”.

Caffeine seems about the easiest, quickest and best that I tried so far. Now… the thing with it is that my body does not seem to be totally interested in it. I don’t know. I got a 20oz Diet Mt. Dew right next to me that I’m sipping on. Before the surgery, I used chug these quite a bit. Now, I’m barely sipping it. This is what I do now:

  1. Sip it for awhile because I’m VERY TIRED
  2. Soon, feel the WIDE AWAKENING
  3. Hour later (or less) I’m VERY TIRED

That was funny: My eyes were really open from the caffeine, but still yawning. That was a new one! ha ha!

Could it be because there was a Bonnie Tyler song I was hearing on this Florida radio station through my phone??? Maybe..  🙂

Tried something new…

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Today (Thursday) I actually (get ready for this…) TOOK A NAP! Did this right after lunch. Woah! That makes one hell of a difference there. I can function more normally… no… “a bit better“…

That’s a nice “description” phrase. Eh…? And this was the most exciting part of my day today. Good Idea. 🙂

On Wednesday, did a few things more than today.

First, I had to get up, which is an entirely awake period.

I ate lunch at noon and had to call for a taxi to get me and take me to the nearby hospital for therapy. By this time of the day, I’m half-way tired. I got to the hospital at 1:10 and the therapy was at 1:45. By 1:45, I was tired. Very, very tired. The therapist called me back to do our stuff consisting of vocabulary words and so forth. Parts of that “testing” I have been very used to and have done a decent job on before. Not yesterday. I was struggling BAD at that work.

Lastly yesterday at 5:00, I saw my psychiatrist. As compared to the way I have been able to speak, think and act in the past, he was impressed in the way I was communicating with him yesterday. Maybe my body was thinking that I had relaxed or something. I (as a WHOLE PERSON) was impressed with myself too.

Oh.. I forgot to mention. The AC was out on the house for the last couple days and just happens to be the hottest two damn days of this year so far. Not sleeping well. Think that makes the difference in as far as the therapy in the hospital? Probably.