Cognitive abilities
 

Despite my best efforts I have been losing cognitive abilities not gaining them with rest and time...

Any reason why?

Suggestions on how I can get better?

I seemed to slip backwards for quite sometime before I started to improve. I don't know why. Perhaps it was continued brain swelling? Maybe I was pushing too hard?

If you are up to it (see above reference to pushing to hard), perhaps you're ready for more cognitive therapy. I can't remember, have you had a neuropsych to help pinpoint your deficits?

There are a number of options. In my case, I found that Attention Processing Training (APT) helped.

Thank you to both Sarah and Hockey this morning for this.
I am having appointments and tests today, so am at the hospital waiting long between appointments. Glad to be able to pass the time online here reading y'all.

My last appt w/pdoc went well. We are looking into possibilities in this 'hinterland' for trauma therapy, which could be good, could be opening up a can of worms? We'll perhaps see. Insurance will have its say as well, I'm sure.

I much better like the idea of the ATP, Hockey, to directly address the cognitive difficulties/concerns that so distress and worry me. Finding that, ATP! in this hinterland I suspect would be unlikely, but I shall seek and find!

Next stop today: brain MRI.
(Cannot even recall what year was my last one! Arrghhh!

Thanks again, Gals.

I went to that fateful yoga class 2 weeks ago today... That was a HUGE setback... I should not have been driving after that class... I lost time... and since have just been noticing decrease in short term memory, unable to remember simple facts in my book, like characters... paying some bills twice and others not at all...


what is APT?

I have not had a neuropsych yet

APT is Attention Process Training. You work through a series of exercises designed to increase your focus, memory, processing speed, etc... For example, you have to tap every time you hear a certain word, while a voice reads unrelated material in the background. (That was a hard one for me. Whew!) http://www.lapublishing.com/attentio...-training-apt1

It might would be worth having a neuro-psych to help target your therapy.