Mind of my Stroked Brain

In the initial months after my stroke. I could hardly see anything that was moving.  It doesn't have anything to do with my retina, optic nerve etc. in order to focus, our lens have to either bulge or thin out to focus incoming light properly on our retina. This action is controlled by "ciliary" muscles. No points for who controls them - completely by our autonomous nervous system whose seat is in the brain stem.  So, I couldn't see anything that moved. At one thing in one place, it would slowly settle down and focus but couldn't deal with moving things.  This was very exasperated when I was taken somewhere in the car. Couldn't see anything from the side window. Everything was constantly moving and what I saw was just a haze.  Over time, like most things in my body, it started very slowly getting better.  If I describe it as a line , it was an upward moving line with a very small upward gradient. This was a line driven by the work of neuroplasticity. In the pa...

I was listening to the song "barbie girl" this afternoon.  It's part of my music list. Brought back old memories. I think I used to listen to those songs in college or just when I started working. It's a time capsule sort of a thing - listening to music transports us to the age. I was feeling nice - young even. Until my nurse jumped and said she was excited to hear the same song - they had danced for it in her LKG or UKG. I came back to my age! 😂