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Age 21-45
Interview 02  

Interview 02

Age at Interview: 29
Sex: Female
Background: Is a married mother of 2 who works as a driving instructor. Ethnic background/nationality: White/Scottish.
Brief outline:She had a stroke after an operation to remove a malignant melanoma. The stroke caused right weakness of her arm and problems with speech. Medication: aspirin (antiplatelet).

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At the start she could not speak at all and had to go back to being like a child and practicing making word sounds. She also went onto have some help with word finding and writing.

 



The speech therapist gave me some, initially some sounds to start trying to make sort of going ooh and ah you know, very basic noises and having to go ttttt but at that point, that was I guess what I needed.

It sounds a bit kind of silly now but when I couldn't say or communicate really in any way at all, I kind of almost had to go back to re-learning a skill that you really take for granted. You think of a child and how they learn to speak and you've been speaking all this time and you're having to go back to basics is very, very strange, quite unnerving and you just don't realise how much you take for granted.

So I was just given various exercises and saw the speech therapist a couple of times on the ward and then had another appointment with her a couple of weeks afterwards. and in those two weeks I'd made quite a remarkable progress and she was, and then she was trying to give me ideas on how I could work on my, my writing and how I need to start.

Basically she was describing to me how my word dictionary had been muddled up but you have, you have all your zoo animals in one section and all your farm animals like under another little category and it's like a big filing cabinet in your head and basically everything had fallen out of my filing cabinet I would say. And that was why I was struggling so much to find words that I needed.
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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