Mind of my Stroked Brain

Cough is a regular feature of everyday. I get 3 types of cough mainly. 1 - aspiration triggered. Either saliva or some other fluid goes into the wind pipe and triggers the cough. This is easy to make out. I think I can feel the entrance of the wind pipe and the aspiration is a recognisable feeling. But since I don't feel anything after, I just have to wait for the cough reflex to kick in. It takes 2-3 seconds sometimes. But the wait feels like an eternity. There is no doubt here, I have begun to relax knowing that the body's defense is very reliable. Sometimes it it violent - but I am confident that whatever foreign body gets surely expelled. 2 - phlegm/ secretion triggered. These are sneaky buggers. Come without any warning. Since the phlem is secreted within the lungs, it doesn't get the foreign-body treatment. Why sometimes it triggers cough - I don't know. I can make out this one because the expelled secretion - I can feel at the base of the throat after cough. I ke

The topic of my epiglottis came up today again.... I want to state for the record, now that i can communicate, i didn't make it up, i did hear the docs and everyone else having an elaborate conversation about the epiglottis not moving and the paralysed right vocal chord. Also, i have seen it not moving properly in countless FES tests , endoscopies and also in the barium swallow tests. I only knew how it should work when i saw the video shown latee by my wife (yes, at some stage it was thought that seeing videos of a perfect swallow would make my brain do it subconsciously) Some gyan here..... The epiglottis is a muscular organ, like the tongue (i think it means tongue in latin) and works completely involuntarily. Like the heart, it just does its job from first breath we breathe to the last breath we take. Its sole function is like a flip flop. Sitting in the throat, it closes the oesophagus when we breathe and closes the wind pipe when we swallow anything. We cannot control it, eve