Wanted Ideas about nerve damage.

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Unfortunately I don't have any ideas, but I just wanted to say I'm sorry to hear about your accident and wish you the best with your recovery. I suffered carbon monoxide poisoning due to my landlord's negligence earlier this summer (long story) and, luckily, my MRI results came back normal, so I am being told I'm okay, but I still feel like it may have effected me in some ways and think I will keep an eye on this thread, in case there are any suggestions that may help me, too. Hope you'll keep us posted on how you are doing.

The best way that I know of to get your brain to re-wire is to keep practicing. Practice the things you need to relearn as if you were doing physical therapy for your brain: until you can't stand it anymore. For example, have a friend or family member do something that you know is *mildly* annoying, and practice maintaining your cool and being polite. You might have to start out with something really small and work up; what you want is something that is difficult, but possible.
Working math with the kids is probaly one of the best things you can to to re-learn working math.

He is currently in the hospital couple blood clots formed and are blocking flow to one half of his brain. He is now alert and stable but won't know much till tomorrow. I will update before Monday here.

Thank you for the update.

I'm sorry to hear that; I hope he's doing a lot better now

Clot busters seem to be working. He is very lucky to have started treatment before he was taken to the hospital. He cant speak right now but is fully aware and does react to questions and people.

Back but hypocampus problems so I keep answers simple for a bit.

You're in my thoughts and prayers.

Heya Johnny - glad to see you're verbal again

Unfortunately speech is still pretty bad. St udder and confused words have son proof reading for me right now. New memories are jumbled. The world looks strange to me right now every thing is bright almost Technicolored. I don't know how many memories I have lost, but I love to fight another day.

I just happen to be an expert in brain plasticity--I had a brain stem stroke and have made an excellent recovery.

It is quite important to get enough rest--your body needs to repair all that damage.

Practice is best done in frequent small doses. Ideally, you would figure out exercises for your brain that are challenging, but not too difficult. There is little benefit in repetition if you have mastered the exercise. There is lots of benefit in professional help. With speech therapy, my speech is better than pre-stroke (less monotonic).

In my case, I'm been able to push myself to master increasingly difficult tasks--this year I learned to throw darts.

You might start out by going back to the beginning and building simple things--I went back to building model rockets.

Thoughts to you

I'm still figuring what has gone. I think I've actually regained some that I lost before but only time will tell. I got yelled at by several doctors for using Warfarin equivalent synthetic to self treat before I got to the hospital But time equals damage or death. I am 30 minutes away from the nearest hospital
In the middle of the night an hour for the ambulance and EMT to arrive fifteen minutes to get loaded and thirty minutes to get there and at least another thirty minutes for a specialist to get there. I feel even though what I did was dangerous It saved me from serious brain damage the clots were blocking a large area of the brain's blood flow. MRI showed were the restriction was an internal carotid artery, as it was only half flow at the time of imaging. I was feeling better by then so Id guess that it was fully blocked before that. But then again I am no doctor.

P.s. Thank goodness for bad dreams.

That's an area I actually have some first-hand knowledge of: warfarin acts by interfering with vitamin K, and it works by accumulating in the body over time (ie, days). It would not have acted quickly enough to change your outcome in the half hour between onset and the hospital; if it happens again, go for an aspirin rather than warfarin if you really want to self-medicate.
In addition, the effects of a brain bleed can mimic the effects of a brain clot, and if you had been suffering from a bleed, taking anticoagulants wouldn't have been beneficial for your outcome.

good luck on your continued improvement.

You are absolutely correct for some reason I was thinking if what they gave me and not what I gave myself. I injected a Alteplase recombinant not Warfarin as I stated above. I'm still having difficulty with resent and new memories.So yes you are absolutely correct as Warfarin is a clot inhibitor not a clot buster. Ill go hide my head in shame as I'm usually very specific in defining anything scientific or chemistry based.

More than understandable under the circumstances. I hope you were really specific with calculating the dose of that!