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Having a stroke is not a whole lot of fun. There were two things. First, is the absolute helplessness and your forced infantilism. The bathroom is probably the
by jimmywanger 10y ago
Having a stroke is not a whole lot of fun.
There were two things. First, is the absolute helplessness and your forced infantilism. The bathroom is probably the most dangerous room in the house for you (you're not allowed anywhere close to the kitchen) and depending on your symptoms, you're not able to situate yourself on the toilet or wipe yourself properly. Having somebody else wipe your ass when you're an adult is not going to appear on the highlight reel of your life. Neither is shitting yourself because you couldn't get your pants off quickly enough before you had to go to the bathroom.
The second thing is the cost. The purported cost of a stroke is about 500k, and that's the negotiated cost when you have good medical insurance, and they pay for a private room and therapy. I don't want to think about what happens when you're indigent and forced to deal with Medicare. I don't know if you just get warehoused in a shared room and flipped a couple of times a day to prevent bedsores.
Guys, get that blood pressure checked regularly, and if it's high, do something about it.
- golemotron 10y agoAll strokes are different. The author makes hers sound like the silencing of the default mode network [1]. That's something meditators strive for. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default_mode_network
- mistermann 10y agoI'm off to do some googling on this, but if you happen to know of any particularly good articles or anything else (keywords, etc) that might help I would appreciate it!
- plg 10y agore: bathroom --- what about Japanese-style auto-clean, auto-dry toilets?
- verylittlemeat 10y agoI took care of someone who had a stroke and even pulling up and pulling down pants to go to the bathroom was nearly impossible. Maybe he was on the more severe end of the stroke spectrum I don't know.
- dpatrick86 10y agoThere's also cheap retrofit bidets on the market ("Biffy" is one.) The Japanese Toto toilets, however, are great.
- jimmywanger 10y agoThe way they're set up is not very useful. First, the ones I've used either have a wireless control panel mounted somewhere you have to flip down a little panel to use, or little controls attached to the seat, which require that you turn your body and operate the controls with one hand. Depending on how you're impaired, if the hand you need to control the toilet is not functioning, you're kind of hosed. Second, if you have any mental impairment, are you really going to go through menus with small icons to control the temperature and pressure of a stream of water directed to your nether parts? Finally, the auto-clean/auto-dry toilets still generally require one last wipe to clean up. Think about it this way, if you're baking a cake, and if you smear frosting on your arm, are you just going to rinse your arm with water and call it day, or are you going to rinse it and then wipe the area dry with a towel?
- dotancohen 10y ago> you're kind of hosed. That's the whole idea!
- dotancohen 10y ago> you're kind of hosed. That's the whole idea!
- abalone 10y agoYou are very fortunate that those are the two things. All strokes are different and many can fundamentally alter speech, vision, movement, comprehension, personality, the ability to swallow, you name it. Checking blood pressure is good advice, but worth noting that strokes can happen to anyone in perfect health, for example AVMs and many aneurysms (like in this article).
- fernandotakai 10y ago> Guys, get that blood pressure checked regularly, and if it's high, do something about it. heart diseases are silent killers. i had high blood pressure (my whole family has it + weight problems) for a long time and never realized. after going to the doctor, getting diagnosed and treating it, my life is a lot better. go to a cardiologist and get checked even if you think you are 100%!