20210213 : my stroke and communication
The reference to the Tobii device a few days back, made me reflect on my communication saga and thought i'll share it with you all. Keen to know any other stroke survivor's story, and and ideas which we all could benefit from... When I had the stroke and got back to clear and coherent understanding of what had hit us, it was about 5 weeks. It was a complétely unnerving feeling and what made it worse was the inability to communicate and express it in any way. Very early on, folks realised i could move my eye balls vertically and blink. Very soon I had two words in my vocabulary. I was asked to look up for Yes and Down for no. It was a good start but the most frustrating as well. -------> I had no way of asking or knowing what I wanted. I could only respond to what everyone wanted to know. Besides, i realised soon its not easy for everyone to frame questions that were closed ended. Most end up having to be Maybe, and other variants, so i chose to keep quiet. Next was a very br