Aug 15, 2004 04:48
in case anyone found me a bit odd recently...I finally have a good reason. Everyone knows I had a stroke recently, but I've had "episodes" where I'm just plain nuts. My Doctor wanted to rule out a brain tumor or brain veins ready to create another stroke. We were a bit surprized after a CAT scan. No Tumor, and the veins were OK. However I apparenly have "Frontal Cortex Atrophy". Doc says it's most likely caused by the clot that caused the stroke and small clots are continuing to cause small strokes (TIAs). Since the cortex is the seat personality, it explains a lot. I have good days and bad days, but I never know when it's going to hit me and my short term memory is fucked. It's extremely embarrassing to talk to someone and not know I talked to them the next day or what we had talked about the day before.
The reason I'm telling ppl that read this is that you all know me as a social person and now I'm afraid to be social as that it embarrasses me greatly and I don't want anyone to think I'm blowing them off. I can talk about things in the past and remember talking about it; but who wants to here the same old crap over and over?
everyone on this list are dear to me and I hope you will all understand.