Mind of my Stroked Brain

I was talking to my dog this morning.  No! I have not lost my mind. It's perfectly normal to talk to your dog! It's weird if the dog talks back to you though...  She is very attached to my wife and daughters and gets very anxious when all 3 of them are not at home.  My wife and daughters have gone for a few days for a holiday. Ever since they left, she has been crying often ( read howling) and has been on a "Satyagraha" boycotting food.  So I was telling her this morning, that they are coming back tomorrow morning and everything will be fine.  And she gave me that strange, blank, questioning look probably wondering "what is this human telling me. I don't recognise this command".  And I realised with that blank look that she doesn't know tomorrow. For that matter, she doesn't know today. She only knows now.. she is living completely in the moment!  Not just her, every animal and being lives only in the moment.  Sure, some species gather and store

I keep getting a lot of stroke surveys to fill up from time to time.  I fill these religiously and provide the information the survey asks for. I fill them genuinely as I don't know what it is going to be used for generally.  Do you know the biggest underlying problem I find in all of them (I have not come across an exception till date). They all assume a stroke is a stroke is a stroke.. surely, we can draw conclusions with generalized assumptions.  Unfortunately, a stroke is not a stroke is not a stroke. If we get a headache, stomach ache or any other illnesses/ diseases they somehow can be generalized and we can understand the symptoms, causes and consequences thus having generalized treatments and care.  However, the only thing common for every stroke is that the root cause was deprivation of oxygen to the brain cells causing the cells to either weaken or die.  Where the stroke happened in the brain, for how long, how much impact did it cause and to what functions, the age of th

Transducers Came across this word recently when I was reading something. Hadn't come across it for a while. Its a word and concept I learnt in my electronics course (either in 12th or my 1st year engineering course I am not very sure now) A transducer, very plainly speaking, is something which helps bridging the analog world with the digital world.  For example, take the very simple digital thermometer in our homes. They can't directly measure temperature in digital form. They have a transducer inside which converts the temperature from a analog/ real world scale to a digital world scale so it can be displayed. Generally speaking, we can say it helps bridge the real world with the digital world. When I had my stroke and I was told I will struggle for balance, I was not able to understand why. My understanding (based on my school learning) was that balance is maintained by the inner ears. Of course we were not told how and I never bothered to ask. I just knew balance was maintai