so Sorry to hear about your Grandson, 12 is so young to have a stroke, but in the context of having a burst vessels in brain, he is lucky to be alive! I met a nurse a while back whose son had a stroke when he was 10 months old, initially it paralysed his whole right side and affected his vision to some degree but that child mad fantastic improvements, by the time he was 3 he had a slight weakeness in his right leg and his fine motor skills were still a little off but the hope was that it would continu to improve. It seems that growing kids still have more plasticity in the CNS, so that damaged areas re route etc. hopefully at 12 he is still a growing boy he may ne lucky and still have some of this repair over time.

as for centralized pain, it is something i have dealt with for over 20yrs, Finally 6 years ago i had a syncromed pump implanted that gives me low dose morphine directly to the fluid around the spine. It is considered a last resort type of treatment but for me i calll it a life saver ( i was close to suicide due to uncontrolled pain despie massive doses of medication), i wa albe to get back to wrk part time and now have the pain controlled most days. Had i been referred to thiss pain clicnic earlier i maay still have 2 legs, the pain was so bad that i had my right leg amputated but as the pain was now centralized, it did little to redce the pain and added phantom paininto the mix too- i would alway encourage anyone with chronic pain to insist on a referral to a pain management clinic, it really is such a specialized subject that few MO's really understand