Mind of my Stroked Brain

Last night, the TV remote hung for some reason and didn't work. When it was time to sleep, it didn't work to switch off the TV. The nurses tried for sometime. Tried the usual, which we all do - taking it closer, slapping it on their palm, opening and adjusting the batteries... It wouldn't relent.  Then they did the next logical thing - try and find the "off" button on the TV. I have a "smart TV". It will outsmart anyone trying to find the off switch. It has no buttons on it. (Don't know if it's by design or they simply forgot to put it!) Anyway it was fun! Not their struggle, but the recollection of a similar scenario... When I was in the hospital (just after the stroke), there was a TV in my room. It had a peculiar mechanism. All the buttons on the remote worked, except the "power" button. So you had to go to the TV and switch it on, then operate the remote. The "on" button was hard to find on the TV - it was somewhat hard to

My TV is not working again. Well, its playing stuff alright, but the TV is not connecting to the Wi-Fi. So the smart TV has overnight become a dumb display. I can still watch everything as before as I have an external Chromecast attached and I cast what I want from my phone. My phone battery is quite bad. I need to charge it a few times during the day. I normally do it when i am unable to have the phone with me - during physio, during change, during afternoon exercises, bath etc. That way I don't really miss it. The battery performance would have been a concern but I don't really care as I don't have to go anywhere with it. However, this new development is irritating. Sometimes it is close to running out of juice and I have to charge it other times. It's not my phone only anymore, it is also the remote for the TV. It's absolutely frustrating when something is playing on the TV and we don't have the remote to change what is playing. Even if dont have to change an

For sometime now, the TV in my room has broken down. When it broke down, I thought I will go mad in a few days! Subsequently, I started with my hearing experiment. So most of the days I listen to music. Sometimes (mostly nights), I listen to the radio (a.k.a podcasts). The same news channels - WION, BBC, NDTV etc. It's a breath of fresh air. On the TV, there are so many jarring visuals, unnecessary opinions, most irritating - the debates. The podcasts are clean. I am actually liking it very much. I know, once the TV is fixed, I will get back to the addiction. But this is good, while it lasts...