since the surgery, my words aren't right. I'll say things like "leak" when I mean "drain" or I'll have to ask for a word I can't locate in my head from my colleagues. It's like a weird Alzheimer's. It's scary and frustrating or maybe frustrating and scary.
It doesn't seem so bad when I teach...I can usually talk around it. BUT, when I'm grading and can't think of the words I need like "complicate this" instead of "this is horse-crap" OR when I'm trying to have a writing conference with a student and I'm a babbling idiot, it's a problem.
Otherwise, my pain is gone 98% of the time. I'm dealing with stiffness mostly. I can even go downstairs without being too scared. One day, I'll be able to kneel and wear heels.
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I told this to a friend yesterday, but maybe if i told it to you too it would make you feel better...I am way more screwed up than you.
I thought about relating your Alzheimers problem to your age, but decided it might be too mean. So for now I'll say..HEELS! And in case you forgot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AWG1oqDrG4
My words are never right. And that's without surgery. Hope that makes you feel a little better.
I am glad though that the pain is almost gone and I know how much you love to wear heels, especially stilettos...
I never have the right words. I am always trying to explain something and it makes sense to me, but no one else gets what I'm saying. Or maybe they get what I say, but not what I mean. But anyway, I also have had less verbal ability while on my steroids and antibiotics and cough syrup, but I think that might be normal.
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