03-23-05  13:42, Ardith Hinton told James Bradley about -Plegias

 Well, how do, Ardith?

 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.

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

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 JB>  Please, the cerebrum is which part?


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

The frontal lobe goes in the front, (Duh! :-) and the left and right
hemispheres compose the cerebrum? (I know the frontal lobe is actually
plural, in how it spans the two hemispheres.) These three parts would
constitute the "grey matter" we see right under the skull bone,
right?


 JB>  do much about it, even if she did make it there within a
 JB>  certain timeframe... What are ya gonna do?


 AH> Agreed.  We were only fifteen or twenty minutes away from
 AH> BCCH  when Nora tried to stand up & discovered her left leg 
 AH> didn't work.  Dallas & I both knew immediately what must 
 AH> have happened.  She didn't get the two-hour remedy, 

I take it she woke up to discover the trouble then? If that's the case, one
can never be sure when the damage occurred. )-: We have quite the research
lab here regarding stroke. Quite an interesting watch on the CBC, to be
sure!

 AH> occurrence is not always as easy as it may seem, and then
 AH> there are the inevitable delays at the hospital... (sigh).

If memory serves, stroke is more common than vehicle collisions.

 AH> My aunt had therapy during the early 1970's after a stroke
 AH> in  which the opposite side of the brain was affected.  She's 
 AH> been an inspiration to us. She lived in the city, where 
 AH> specialists were available... she realized it was possible 
 AH> to recover much of what she'd lost... and she worked very 
 AH> hard at her therapy just as Nora is doing now.  Maybe the 

I guess it's the undamaged hemisphere that can take up the slack? TOUGH
work to be sure, FWIR.

 AH> concept was fairly new then, but even today such services
 AH> aren't automatically available to everybody.  In many cases 
 AH> a person must seek them out & show willingness to do their 
 AH> own bit.  :-)
 
Ya, we have to chase this stuff like an athlete, and usually get refused
until we camp out on their doorstep. /-:
 
 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?


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

Cheers! There are some you just can't get enough of, and some you just try
to escape. Just like in person, really. You aint the later, I assure you!

As my Windows troubles seems to turn the mundane, I heard my Linux box
banging its HD actuator just last night. So now, I have MORE to fix. Ah,
such is life, eh? 


TTY on the flip side.


... James

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