My wife and I just started unpacking our suitcases from our vacation. I told her I had a headache, so she told me to go lay down and take a nap. Suddenly, I woke up and I’m on the floor. I’m numb, I can’t speak, and my right side is paralyzed. Quickly my wife Annie…
Originally after my stroke, I couldn’t say anything or do much at all. I remember I couldn’t write in full sentences, just bullets. However, even 10 years after my stroke I met two very influential Speech Language Pathologists from Boston. I began working with them and my skills improved so much more and they continue…
People with aphasia who attend group treatment at the Loyola Clinical Centers in Baltimore and Columbia, Maryland shared their thoughts during Aphasia Awareness Month: Difficult – “Aphasia is difficult. It is hard for me to talk. I cannot say things I want to say. It is difficult when my wife is talking. Sometimes she writes…
This is a Finding Words story! The following is Rick’s more detailed story, written by his wife Stephanie: It was Sunday of Thanksgiving Weekend, and I was raking leaves with my son, Jason, when I starting having a massive headache…. like no headache I ever had before. My wife called 911 and I went to…
This is a Finding Words story! I had an aneurysm on November 10, 2013 and 3 strokes while in the hospital. It affected my speech and my left arm. I was 40 with 2 boys. I was in a coma for 3 months and did rehab for 3 months. I had to learn how to…
This is a Finding Words story! In Mexico, I was a salesman and used language a lot. When I had my stroke, I lost the ability to express myself. I had a lot of ideas in my head but I couldn’t find the words. It was very frustrating. The right side of my body was…
This is a Finding Words story! We are from the Group Aphasia Program (GAP) at the Gebbie Clinic on the Syracuse University campus. During a recent session, group members with aphasia and the graduate student clinicians under the supervision of their clinical supervisor created a brochure in an effort to raise awareness about aphasia. At…
This is a Finding Words story! After I got the news that I suffered a stroke, I was devastated. No longer able to speak. My brain was a scrambled mess. I surrounded myself with professionals at the VA . and SU Gebbie Clinic. I ask them for help, and they came though in spades. That…
This is a Finding Words story! My husband Paul was working the day before it happened. He is an economist and teached at the university in Montreal. He is suffering global aphasia and apraxie.following a AV C in 2015 He cannot talk, read or write or count, h motricity is good. It is the mots…
This is a Finding Words story! Jovan my son 32 yrs suffered from Stroke after Brain surgery 10 yrs ago He got totally paralyses & lost his little speech he had before .He regained his motor functions a lot not his speech ! See if Aphasia therapy can be of some help to him