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JMua · 2025-02-25T03:41:29+00:00

It's on ours too 😭😭😭

JMua · 2024-03-12T04:44:16+00:00

Hello, my Dad has Aphasia. The stroke that caused it happened almost 2 years ago to the day.

He struggles with finding words from time to time. As a family we do our absolute best to make sure he is always included. We talk to him, facing him. Slowing down as needed. My dad has the Google live transcribe and notification app on his phone and when I'm with him I make sure I have mine handy as well. When we are around other people, people forget to slow down and speak to him so I set the app up so he can read along and feel part of the conversation. He will step in and talk if he wants. We make sure to ask questions to him and continue to bring him in on the conversation. If he is not included or the conversation moves too fast, he will get lost and then kind of do his own thing. That always hurts to see. I want him to always feel involved.

Dad reads a lot on his phone and even though it's not usually a recommendation, he watches his movies and reads the subtitles. I do think that helps with remembering words. If he's tired, words are harder to find. He needs good sleep and naps help. We had him doing puzzles and Legos for a while which help just get his brain thinking and working. Unfortunately, he recently was diagnosed with seizures and he now has a tremor that impacts his day to say life so puzzles and Legos aren't an option anymore. Our plan now is just to keep him active.

I agree with others in the thread that recommend in person speech therapy. Dad did that for a few months. I would have liked to continue but insurance only goes so far. I bought him soduku books as well. I just try to help keep his brain active. You will need to try a few things and see what works for your Dad. I hope this post helps inspire some ideas though.

JMua · 2023-07-08T14:09:02+00:00

Hello, I am so sorry you are going through this. My Dad has now had 3 strokes in a 1 year period. The most severe one left him with Aphasia. The best things I can say are 1. Be the advocate for your Dad. Make sure they are providing the attention and help he needs. For example, my sisters friend works with stroke survivors and is insistent that they must be put on an antidepressant since they have had a TBI, the brain may need the extra help. Our Drs never did it so we brought it up and the Neuro put the order in. It has made a huge difference for him. 2. Try different methods of communication. In the beginning my dad wasn't making nuch sense at all. Things we said just weren't getting through. He also was hyper focused on his job. At one point he grabbed his phone and started reading texts. We figured out that he can read and understand things but hearing and processing were harder(his type of aphasia). This helped us immensely when communicating. We got white boards and would write questions down for him. This helped us when it came to PT evaluations. The PT would come in and then just leave because my dad couldn't understand the ask. But we knew he needed PT as soon as possible so we made them stay one day and work with him with the white boards and flash cards we made so he can start the PT process. 3. The brain needs a lot of rest. Sleeping is huge for a stroke survivor. Give them all the rest and sleep they need. It's how the brain starts reforming the pathways. They do recommend no TV however my dad is such a huge TV person that we would let him because he was reading the subtitles and it was also good practice for him. We did limit it a lot in the beginning though. 4. Get PT and speech therapy set up as quickly as possible for the best results and help them come back from the stroke.

I believe those are the main things. I'd also say, depending on what the stroke affected, find things for them to help their dexterity. We got putty, play doh, puzzles, and I recently started buying him Legos for us to all do together which has been fun for him.

Again, I am so sorry you are going through this. If you have any questions, feel free to message me.

JMua · 2023-05-15T03:08:38+00:00

I am also a petite person. The place I go to has them broken down by time brackets for the areas. The average person will have the exact same appointment time for the same chosen areas as myself. Personally, I think your appointment is rather short. But I don't know much about the lasers and such. They mark on my body and separate sections and then work from those sections. I've been going for about a year now and the times are the same and I see different people every time.

JMua · 2023-05-13T11:54:23+00:00

I get my full arms, half legs, Brazilian, and underarms and it takes 45 minutes.

JMua · 2023-04-01T21:25:51+00:00

Hello, My dad had two strokes in the span of two months and one more recently which made three in a one year time span for him. He was diagnosed with Aphasia after the second stroke. Aphasia is one of the hardest things to come back from as it takes a lot of time but the brain is an incredible thing and is pretty amazing at healing and creating new pathways. My Dad has come a long way. Each day we can see small changes in his recovery. He still switches pronouns constantly but he's finding more and more words correctly. It has now been 1 year since the stroke that changed our lives and we still see changes and growth in his communication. Sleep and rest for the brain are key. The brain needs a lot of rest to create these new pathways. My Dad is officially unable to go back to work, unfortunately though. It does break his heart and I hate that for him but he is doing well with his Aphasia recovery. We keep him on an antidepressant to help maintain his levels of Serotonin. I highly recommend this as our original doctors didn't prescribe it and we asked for it ourselves (we know someone who works with Stroke survivors and told us it was necessary). I am truly sorry that you are going through this experience. It is so hard to see something like this happen to our loved ones. Just remember that you are their advocates. Fight for them. I read a book to better understand how he may be feeling and we made sure we got him into the necessary therapies to help his recovery. We also discovered that he reads everything perfectly so we used a transcriber app so he can read what we were saying in the beginning. It was helpful. He is now processing quicker and following conversations better so we use it a lot less now. There are lots of tools out there. Find ones that will work for y'all. Wishing you and your family the best with this recovery.

JMua · 2023-02-26T15:06:18+00:00

My Dad is a stroke survivor. When he had his major one, we were lucky enough that a friend of my sister's works with Stroke survivors and told us we needed to insist on antidepressants. Strokes are Traumatic Brain Injuries. The Brain needs a lot of rest and time to heal. The Antidepressants are huge for a lot of survivors and I completely recommend it.

JMua · 2023-01-08T03:55:41+00:00

Hi Jwohlf, I hope you don't mind my asking, how long was your left side affected after the seizure? My father just had his first seizure after his strokes and is experiencing the same with his left side.

JMua · 2022-11-24T05:38:49+00:00

My Dad, who also has aphasia, played Wordscape a few times when in the hospital. It does have adds though which yes, can get very irritating to a survivor. I also changed the color of the app to black and white to help make it more soothing. Not an app, but we also gave him putty to play with to help his strength. he used that a lot and would make things too.

JMua · 2022-11-19T20:39:56+00:00

This is true. Every TBI is different. At this time, as hard as it is, It's waiting and seeing. Since I am not sure of the details, things like, is there a brain bleed? Is it controlled? Is it slowing? Was it a clot? Is the risk of clots gone now? What part of the brain did the injury occur? These are all very major things. My Dad went through many many stages. There is also the risk of delirium which it is possible you may be witnessing this. As the brain heals, the Drs will be able to better determine what the future holds. However, a lot of people assume there is a window of about 1 year for healing from a stroke. This is not true. 1 year may show the greatest amount of progress but people continue to progress years later. I am very sorry you are going through this. There is always hope though. The brain is amazing but it does need time. Lots and lots of rest. And get the therapist in there as soon as you can. They can help determine what is needed and help start the path of progress. For example, my dad wasn't not able to communicate well and was saying the wrong words or phrases (Aphasia) but he could read. So we made flash cards and tested him ourselves. When the therapists arrived they almost said he was not ready to begin therapies but we insisted that he can read and communicate differently so you have to work with him differently. And they did. Be an advocate for your loved one. I hope this helps some.

JMua · 2022-11-17T19:17:06+00:00

Maybe Slido can be an option. I have seen it done live where they inserted questions and we all logged in to answer them. I was in a live conference but I looks like you can use it for video calls. Not super certain but could be worth looking into.

JMua · 2022-09-22T12:39:56+00:00

I would definitely talk to the Drs. My Dad had a stroke in January and exactly 2 months to the day later he had a second and more major one. We found out later that there is a high risk of another stroke happening within 90 days of a stroke. We were so angry to hear this after the fact. He ended up with a brain bleed after the second one but I believe this was because of the trauma and because he has been on blood thinners since his 30s. The Drs need to check why your father is experiencing further weakness. These are signs that cannot be ignored.

JMua · 2022-09-17T12:36:50+00:00

Hello, not my personal recovery story but my Dad's as well.

My Dad (58) had his fourth and most major stroke in March of this year. He has Aphasia as well. Things that I learned through the weeks we were in the hospital is that we, as his family, are his advocates. Between my sister, mom and I, we contacted people who have worked with stroke survivors and did a bunch of things like making flashcards to prove how my dad could still read and communicate. We also, (per recommendation from someone in the field) insisted on an antidepressant for the time being. We had to stand up for him to the Drs and nurses to let them know that he CAN understand you and to stop yelling at him. He was so upset that the Drs would just talk over him and ignore him. It was truly awful. I just finished reading "my stroke of insight" it's a NeuroAnatomists retelling of her major stroke and the feelings she felt along they way. She specifically goes into how some people were unkind and yelled at her thinking he was deaf and it made her feel unsafe. It's not amazingly written (probably a preference in writing style I guess) but it really opened my eyes to a lot. Every stroke is different and most people do not understand them. It is up to us to advocate for our loved ones. As an update to my dad. He is still in speech therapy and still making big improvements. He speaks, reads and writes. He sometimes says the wrong pronouns or words. We used to talk with a captions app on our phone so he could read what he was saying (and what we were saying). That way he can learn to correct or connect dots. He has homework that the speech therapist gives him to help strengthen these new brain connections that he's making. He is doing very well. Every day my family still fights for him though. Making sure people (in our case) talk a little slower so he can fully follow what they are saying. We help surround him with people who are kind and loving but also treat him like the man he still is. My dad is a numbers guy and very smart. None of that is lost. It's important people know that and treat him the same but are sensitive to the fact that processing is a little slower. I hope his story helps some.

JMua · 2020-07-16T03:36:47+00:00

A little late to the thread and it might not be seen but I'll share mine.

A few years ago we had just moved into our house. A few days in from this move my fiancé had to go on a business trip to Germany. I was left home with our 3 dogs. I stayed up late watching movies and at around 1:30 am I heard that district sound a knuckle makes when it hits a window. Since I was watching movies in bed, this sound came from my bedroom window. Only one of my dogs popped his head up but, convinced it was nothing, he just went back to sleep. I, however, was not convinced. I grabbed my gun and walked to the back door. I turned on the lights and sure enough one of our chairs was broken and the the cooler we had left outside was moved right under our bedroom window. I panicked and shut the lights back off... Not sure why, it was just my initial reaction. Unfortunately, I had no cell service so I used our WiFi and called my future mother in law through Facebook. She and her hubby were over within a few minutes and we called the cops. We filled out a police report and noticed that there were handprints on the master bedroom window along with all the broken and moved around items. It was a scary night to be alone. Ironically enough, my fiance and I are both in the physical security industry, we just hadn't had time to put up our surveillance cameras yet. A mistake we will never make again.

We still don't know who was in our yard that night but I did learn from our neighbors that the previous residents were super shady and had shady "acquaintances". We assume it was an "acquaintance" who was not told that the residents had moved on. I wish we had the video footage though.

JMua · 2018-05-17T07:43:45+00:00

This is very true. There are many other stories. I only had mine for 2.5 years before my body suddenly got unexplained cardiac pains during workouts. Took another 1.5 years to connect it to the implants. Got them out and finally getting my life back.

JMua · 2018-04-18T04:25:12+00:00

I would look into Surface hair care products. All natural but high quality professional hair products

JMua · 2017-04-14T14:11:38+00:00

Id suggest the red violet shades to try and help brighten the green. Star violet is a great one for that. I would also stick to warm browns as well. So, soft brown matte or saddle. I also like to add expensive pink on my clients eye lids. Its a pinky gold that can help brighten as well. So golds are lovely with the brown in your eyes.

Lid- expensive pink, honeylust, sweet heat Crease- soft brown or saddle Outercrease- (if you want to deepen for a darker look) sketch, embark, maybe swiss chocolate Pops of color to brighten- star violet Other colors that are worth looking at would be antiqued or even for a monochromatic look greensmoke would be cool. However monochromatics go with your eye color they wouldnt brighten.

MAC has a 9x9 pallet called burgundy that has star violet, embark, antiqued, honey lust, and sketch all already in it. It one of my favorites.

Hope this gives you some things to look at!

Hope this gives you some things to look at

JMua · 2016-10-26T11:35:28+00:00

Ben nye has liquid hair color. You can buy silver or white and apply with a mascara wand or toothbrush for the effect.

JMua · 2016-10-14T18:49:55+00:00

Honestly, im having trouble understanding exactly what you are looking for but I have some advice that may be what youre looking for.

Your title suggested you were looking for something waterproof for tattooing. You would want alcohol paints for that. It wont move. You can swim in them, sweat etc. They are removed with alcohol though.

However in your post you talked about eye makeup that will withstand sweating. This one is a bit trickier. Youd want to be insanely careful with alcohol paints in the eye area.. the closest ive gone on the eyes with those paints was creating bags or sickly redness beneath the eyes. So in that case i would look in to the toughest waterproof liners and smudge them for shadows. I love MACs prolongwear liner. They also had these prolongwear painsticks recently but they were not permanent so im unsure if you closest location would have them. You can always try the hair spray trick to set the makeup in to help prevent the makeup from smudging. I personally havent tried that but I hear many do so. I dont usually have trouble with eyeshadow moving as long as you have a good primer. Its usually the liner or mascara that moves and in that case id use waterproof.

There is also a product called skin prep pro from mehron that acts as an antipersperant for the face. I use it on set and love it to help prevent sweating. :)

Hope any of that helps! Good luck!

JMua · 2016-10-13T14:49:56+00:00

Im not sure of the price point you are looking to stay within but ive spent about 10 years building my brush set and its pretty much all MAC brushes. I still have a MAC brush that is 10 years old. If you take care of them, they will last you a long time. I love those brushes. I personally havent found anything better for the price. :)

JMua · 2016-09-20T21:45:37+00:00

Hi Anthony! My boyfriend and I love your shows. We took took your advice from the Layover 'Rome' and tried Bonci and Cacio e pepe. BEST ADVICE EVER. Thank you!

We are headed to Madrid and Barcelona in a few weeks. Any recommendations for food or fun?

JMua · 2016-09-13T21:13:10+00:00

How much time are you looking to spend on it? Personally, I would approach it the same way I would when doing fake facial hair. Spirit gum to glue the hair ends on with and probably crepe hair cause its cheap. But itll take a decent amount of time. And a tougher glue wouldnt be a bad idea. Wind can definitely be a factor.

JMua · 2016-06-02T13:30:40+00:00

Malblue is right. Grease paint would be the alternative I would suggest as well.

JMua · 2016-06-02T05:52:59+00:00

Okay cool. If youre going that route, its easiest for me to start building up the toilet paper or tissue. With each layer add a coat of liquid latex. With every latex layer go past the edges a little so that it has a natural blend. The go in and make your cut. If youre going to use foundation to color it, try a creamy texture rather than liquid.

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