Greetings again,
I have just been to see my consultant, he's a nice chap, easy to talk to and very affable. We are still very much on the case of determining the cause of my stroke. I had a good look at my MRI scan which was interesting to see the timeline of the minor strokes and then major stroke. I felt a bit sorry for my brain at that stage. I haven't been confirmed for a bubble echo yet and am very keen to get this done.
My consultant told me that the information practioners get regarding cerebellar stroke are very much "classic casebook studies" and he has found that in reality, things are quite different. Yesterday, I was not so bad. I managed to hobble in and out of hospital, cook dinner for my family and slept okay (apart from a terrible feeling having woken several hours after going to bed which found me craddling myself back to sleep).
Today, I have been "off" all day. My head has been "off-kilter" all day. Apart from some small respite when resting but as soon as I got up, I didn't feel steady at all. Today has almost felt like a few days after my stroke. It is now fourty-two days after my stroke. If I rub or scratch my head it makes me feel "funny", this is usually how it feels but today it has been more pronounced. I haven't been able to focus well when moving. Even sitting has me swaying in my brain.
What I would like to ask, is whether these kind of extremes are experienced by other people? Some days, I feel good. I get up, do things in a psuedo-normal way and feel cheerful because of it. Then, a day like today comes and I can't do anything it seems. It becomes a day of mostly tussling with the merest physical and mental shifts from hour to hour. I don't have a headache but my mind is sort of pulsing. I haven't landed on an even keel and was wondering if others have experienced such polar opposite days.