one day before my stroke, I hit my gaming PUBG dream (a cautionary tale)

Steven Rimmington said:
ry good, left arm still gives me grief but been youngish I made sure I did everything I could to get back to normal. Pushing myself to extreme in some cases. 2 steps back 1 forward and all that.
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at least you had something to work with, my left arm/hand are just totally dead, so much for neuro plasticity!
 
Colonel_Klinck said:
Strokes are brutal. My old man had one at 49 on his right side, took his speech and he never got it back :( Right leg and hand too. He did learn to draw really well with his left hand though. Hope you manage to get some use back and yeah look after yourself people.
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this must have been a left side of the brain stroke left side of the brain is the language center, and each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body, how is he now?
 
Threepwood said:
at least you had something to work with, my left arm/hand are just totally dead, so much for neuro plasticity!
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Neuroplasticity differs wildly between individuals due to various factors. Also the speed of initial treatment is a huge factor.

I had a stroke when I was 32, it happened just after I had a heart procedure done. It gave me severe double vision and killed my left hand side completely. Luckily, I was in hospital when it happened. Within 10 mins I had a huge dose of aspirin delivered directly into my bloodstream, the double vision resolved after a couple of hours, I was walking in just over a week and regained everything within 2 weeks. I was in the rehab ward for 1 week and had a bit of home rehab for 3 weeks. The rehab nurse said I was easily one of the luckiest stroke survivors she’d seen in her 20 year career.

The weirdest thing I found though was the mental aspect. I almost went bipolar for a while. One minute I was happy and cheerful, then I’d just burst into tears out of nowhere. I’d also get very upset when my family had to leave after visiting.
 
Threepwood said:
this must have been a left side of the brain stroke left side of the brain is the language center, and each side of the brain controls the opposite side of the body, how is he now?
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Yes it was. He'd been suffering an intermittent vision problem with one eye for a few months, they think it was a clot behind his eye that broke off in the middle of the night and caused the stroke. This was back in 1989 though and diagnostics just wasn't very good and the idea of it being a clot wasn't investigated. He passed away last year at 83. He never recovered anything but it was hours from when he had the stroke to when he got to hospital. My mum called the doctor rather than the ambulance as that was what people tended to do back them. The doctor took over 30 minutes to get there and he then called the ambulance, that took an hour to get him to A&E as we lived in the sticks. As you likely know time is everything when it comes to strokes.
 
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I can't stop reading these lines:

"Little did I know that I'd never get, nor even equip it ,
If only I'd have made it for 2 days to the end of the season instead, then I'd've collected the rewards, and been able to play at least one match, with a mega awesome parachute skin, but no, massive stroke was my destiny instead!"

It needs a voiceover to really make the sadness pop.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
I can't stop reading these lines:

"Little did I know that I'd never get, nor even equip it ,
If only I'd have made it for 2 days to the end of the season instead, then I'd've collected the rewards, and been able to play at least one match, with a mega awesome parachute skin, but no, massive stroke was my destiny instead!"

It needs a voiceover to really make the sadness pop.
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I read it outloud to my wife's bf and he couldn't stop laughing at the construct of the OPs post
 
HoneyBadger said:
Because it’s not real, whereas your partner and kid are. You’re proud of something, great. But you need all kinds of help, hopefully one day soon you’ll realise. Until then, all the best.
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you don't understand, I was not favouring pubg over my relationship or our child, in fact I was driving to scotland, and back at least twice a week, sometimes 3 times, to see them, all this driving I think contributed somewhat towards the stroke, PUBG was meerly a sideline, that pushed my body over the edge
 
Threepwood said:
you don't understand, I was not favouring pubg over my relationship or our child, in fact I was driving to scotland, and back at least twice a week, sometimes 3 times, to see them, all this driving I think contributed somewhat towards the stroke, PUBG was meerly a sideline, that pushed my body over the edge
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Why didn't you move to Scotland? How did it come about, a kid in Scotland?
 
dlockers said:
Why didn't you move to Scotland? How did it come about, a kid in Scotland?
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we both lived at the same housing co-op country farm house, kinda like a commune, just more grown up (mortgage to pay etc), in Scotlandjust south of Glasgow, that is where we met, fell in love and nine months later our boy was born at home, she is half scottish, and it made sense to bring the Lad up as Scottish, since he was born in scotland to a mainly scottish mother, and a wider scottish family/ community, and he has a Scottish last name, then eventually we both split up , because I kept shagging other women and I moved down to suffolk, where my mum lived, while she moved to south west scotland, our relationship never rekindled into proper love( I did try but it is hard to regain trust) so, we just continued to have great sex whenever we saw each other.
But great sex is not enough to hold two people together it seems, Maybe I should have showed more commitment by moving close to them, but that would have meant leaving my mum to the wolves
I never moved up there because my work was down here which involved keeping my Mum's business running, Mum used to have a posh, bar/restaurant, and event space at a country hall.
mum had to give the place up after my stroke because she couldn't run it by herself, sadly, (too old) she is also very stubborn, and set in her ways so the thought of getting a new business partner was right out! which was the problem to start with, and why I had to step in.
it was a very lovely place, and I miss all the posh daughters.
It was a tough position to be in, but I had to look after my Mum first, and settle for just visiting my gf, and son as often as I could, like I say, sometimes 3 to 4 times a week, plus I had 2 other kids in yorkshire that I had to visit, and spend time with too.

Now our boy is reaping the benefits of free education, and healthy university student bursaries, plus he is remembered in everybody's Wills up there, I swear that he will leave uni richer than when he went in, and he had a fair amount saved to start with due to an invested Child Trust Fund money sheme, with some extra that we, and family added to the CTF scheme amount
when that matured for his 18th birthday he got almost 8k, one relative died and he was given another 5k on top of that, and he is now living well below his means in a student housing co-op in the big city, so is actually managing to save as a student, he always has been a Jammy bugger, he's no Dafty,
part of the housing co-op's rent includes being given bare essentials, that are bought from ethical ,wholesalers, like all the housing co-ops do, from places like SUMA wholefoods, and green city in glasgow, they even get given, organic produce, it's a really good deal living there, with all bills inc for only£388 per month, with your own furnished bedroom,and minimal sharing apart from the shared communal areas, he got in there easily, mainly because he was born at a co-op that shares strong links with other co-ops, including the student co-op where he lives now, he was real lucky to get offered a place right before he would no longer be allowed to stay in halls, like I said, he is so jammy, his application was *very* good though, and all off his own back we didn't have to cajole him at all, very proud of him I am, much better than paying huge city rents,esp where he is
he is currently studying English, because his mum's dad is an author, and he wants to be just like him
his great grandad was the first in the family to go to university which heavily influenced his mum's dad, so there is quite the tradition of going to uni to do english now for the scottish men along his maternal line, which has now come full circle with our son, going to the same uni as his great grandfather did, who broke out of working class to become educated.

Our boy has a big dick and a great sense of humour too.
Just like his dad.
he is emotionally stable, and is a swimmer, not a sinker.
Just like his mum
 
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