Tag Archives: Spoken Word

Within a year of the stroke being diagnosed my spoken word had become quite bad. I would see something very clearly in my mind’s eye, be about to say it and then suddenly go blank. I couldn’t, for the life of me, visualise what I had been about to say. Because I couldn’t see it I could not use substitute words.

Symptoms – Seen and Unseen

Showing paralysis of the right arm.

The stroke had both seen and unseen symptoms. Healthcare professionals, family and friends were not aware of the unseen changes. They saw only the paralysis on one side of the body, the drooping of the face on one side and agreed I had had a stroke. What they didn’t know was that there were other symptoms that were not visible to the naked eye. These unseen changes signalled the progression of the stroke.