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18 Sep 2014, 9:20 pm

A stroke is the most debilitating disease one can get, IMO. So I am here to talk about it.
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While no immediate family members of mine have had one, some people close to me (that I've known indirectly) have suffered one. It's very terrible; you are only half the man you are, mentally speaking.

So, discuss strokes here.


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19 Sep 2014, 9:38 pm

I'm no expert and have no medical qualifications.

But I would observe that strokes are of very variable severity, and that people can make good recoveries even from some of the more serious ones. A presenter of Current Affairs on the BBC, Andrew Marr, is one such example, having suffered a fairly major stroke a year or so ago, and now back interviewing and fronting programmes on British TV, without any apparent ill-effects.

I'd say that something like ALS (Motor Neurone Disease) or a Glioma brain tumour would be better candidates for "the most debilitating disease one can get", as they are effectively a death sentence and involve an inexorably debilitating experience in the process.

Nonetheless, the "living death" situation which can result from a stroke, sometimes with little or no prospect of improvement, should be pretty high on anyone's list of things to dread, as you rightly imply. The loss of control over one's day to day life, not to mention the loss of dignity, must be at least as bad as any amount of physical pain that one might experience in other illnesses, in its own way.



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22 Sep 2014, 3:57 am

Well, first, a stroke isn't a disease...it's an event. You might have a disease that makes you prone to stroke or stroke-like events, but the event itself is not a disease.

My dad's had a few. Most all minor and then a big one. He still has most of his mobility and ability to care for himself, but ever since the big one, he can't do a lot of things he used to, and he's frustrated and angry over it. He feels largely useless, but we let him do as much as he can manage because the minute he stops doing stuff for himself, he will waste away.



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25 Sep 2014, 11:46 am

while a stroke MAY have cognitive (how i read the OP's use of the word "mentally") effects, depending on the area of the brain in which the stroke occurs, not every stroke DOES. most often the effects are physical - impairments to speech or movement.



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12 Oct 2014, 12:16 pm

^ I see. That's pretty close to what I meant when I said 'mentally'.


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