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Old 06-16-2014, 01:40 PM #3
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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?
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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) [/B] 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.
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