Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AH>  I guess stroke is the most common cause... the important
AH>  factor is an injury which involves one hemisphere

JB>  That struck me once my mail was on its way. I think you
JB>  did say so much last time. Sorry for being thick.


           That's okay.  Many others tend to do the same thing, yet don't
have afterthoughts & don't apologize!  You gave me an opportunity to
expand on what I'd written, which was meant to be brief but not dummified,
and since you were able to figure it out in the end I must have got the
balance about right.  :-)



JB>  Please, the cerebrum is which part?


           It's the largest, and possibly the most complex, part of the
brain. In view of the preceding discussion what matters most is that it's
responsible for the initiation & co-ordination of voluntary motor
activity....  :-)



JB>  No, she clearly had a stroke. One day, they woke up and
JB>  went directly to the doctor.


           Sounds to me like a stroke too....



JB>  As she was four-hundred miles or so away from a hospital,
JB>  and I don't think there was the therapies at the time to
JB>  do much about it, even if she did make it there within a
JB>  certain timeframe... What are ya gonna do?


           Agreed.  We were only fifteen or twenty minutes away from BCCH
when Nora tried to stand up & discovered her left leg didn't work. 
Dallas & I both knew immediately what must have happened.  She didn't
get the two-hour remedy, though... we were told it can be counterproductive
if it's administered later. Pinpointing the exact time of occurrence is not
always as easy as it may seem, and then there are the inevitable delays at
the hospital... (sigh).

           My aunt had therapy during the early 1970's after a stroke in
which the opposite side of the brain was affected.  She's been an
inspiration to us. She lived in the city, where specialists were
available... she realized it was possible to recover much of what she'd
lost... and she worked very hard at her therapy just as Nora is doing now. 
Maybe the concept was fairly new then, but even today such services aren't
automatically available to everybody.  In many cases a person must seek
them out & show willingness to do their own bit.  :-)



JB>  I'll be trying to do a few chores on the Windows boxes
JB>  for the next few days, so don't take it personally as
JB>  my volume decreases, will ya?


           Thanks for the warning.  The timing is very good, actually,
because we're on spring break... meaning Nora is home from school & I
have some partly finished replies which may or may not be ready for posting
until next week.  I do wish you the best of luck with Windoze, anyway! 
Take care & TTUL....  :-))




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