21.11.2019
The Locked-In Traveler
(Kati’s Wheelchair Traveling Journals)
Assistants/Caregivers
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There are different types of strokes, and there are many variables in play when one gets a stroke. Like how massive the stroke, how quick the response, and some other factors. The result of a stroke to a patient can vary from wholly locked unto complete recovery.
07.11.2019
The Locked-In Traveler
(Kati’s Wheelchair Traveling Journals)
The great language barrier
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Locked-In syndrome is also referred to as the Living corpse. No wonder for in the worst-case scenarios the patients cannot even move their eyes. I was completely paralyzed after the stroke. The only things I could move were my eyelids and my eyes. The only way I could communicate was by blinking my eyes. Once for; “yes” twice for; “no.” The letter board (air alphabet) was a blessing, with that system I could communicate again.
