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In Remembrance
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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In Remembrance
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: SE Kansas.
Posts: 374
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Hi Anna,
It's good to see that learning that some of your problems may be related to RSD; and you're not the first to wonder what is going on in your brain and whether you might be losing it. But that isn't the end of the story; at least I hope not.
RSD will not be incurable forever: at the least, we can expect the future to bring better and longer periods of remission, perhaps a continuing series of treatments to be repeated as necessary so our lives can continue uninterrupted by symptoms.
Meanwhile, you don't have to keep having major memory or speech problems. You can't do much against the RSD, but later onset stuttering is often easily overcome.
My career in social work began at a rehab hospital that focused on brain injuries (trauma, stroke, etc), where speech, processing and memory were severely impaired, and I had the opportunity to see for myself how speech/inhalation therapy could help patients with moderately severe brain damage overcome stuttering. Your type of stuttering is mild in comparison and most likely easily treatable.
You don't need barriers to social interaction compounding the social isolation imposed by physical limitations, and I hope you and your parents will start looking for a speech therapist who will help you solve this problem. The sooner the better: stuttering quickly becomes a habit, and habits are more easily broken sooner rather than later.
Occupational therapy can help you find ways to improve your memory. Not many people can tell you what O/Ts do, and so may never consider the possibility that one could help them. I don't know exactly what they do or how they do it, but my patient's cognitive scores increased after seeing them, and that impressed the Hell out of me.
I don't care if they dance around half-naked chanting ancient Hindu mantras, whatever they do helped brain injured patients remember things better (they helped in other areas too).
You have a future, and that future will be much brighter if you do things now to overcome these two problem areas in your life. I hope you and your parents will look into what can be done today to make tomorrow better...Vic
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