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How disabled did he get?
Coping StrategiesUnderstanding Stroke Experiencestrokeloss of hearingloss of memoryloss of speechloss of visionparalysisweaknessbrainleft side of the bodyright eyeright side of the body

How disabled did he get?

This is the story of Roman's stroke, told by his two daughters Wioletta and Edyta. Here they discuss the extent to their father's disability after his stroke.

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So the first day, which is when we came to hospital, the night after, even the doctor didn't know what is going on, how much damage the brain caused and he couldn't open his eyes either. He was kept, I would say, out of conscious and the doctor really prepped us for the worst. He said to us like he might stay like that and he was keep repeating to us that the brain is really damaged, like my father can even not be able to stand from the bed and like he can stay like this for all his life and also sorry he said that we might expecting another stroke soon probably in 48 hours or if nothing happened in 48 hours then it's gonna be around three months something like this I'm not really sure exactly, but yeah, he prepped us for the, I would say for the worst. There was not even a single word that I would say was positive about this. Like everything was negative, like no negative, like yeah, the doctor wanted to prep us really for the worst, not having the hope like, oh, my father will wake up and stand for the legs. And especially we never had a situation with a stroke. So we never had to like even to compare with another person or stuff like this. So, yeah. So the first night, first day, he didn't open his eye either. but what surprised us the night after when we came back, so the second day when we came back to hospital my father had the nurse one-to-one like he had yes someone did need to stay with him 24 7 and we asked him why that's happened so the doctor told us my father tried to stand up from the bed during the night so this was kind of a light for us that okay so he got power in his body that he tried at least to stand up and we found out that his left side of his body is working completely fine so there was no damage on his left side just is the damage on the right side. He had paralyzed, like he had a weakness in his hand and his leg. We didn't know how much damage is with his speechness, with his memory or with his vision till we found out after like a few days, a few weeks, because the first days, I would say weeks, was as well for us new. Like we didn't, yeah, we tried to find out how exactly the stroke caused damage for my father. So that time my father, he didn't move his hand either, his leg, he lost speech, he lost memories, he lost vision on his right eye, he lost hearing. So I would say his right side of his body was completely damaged, I would say like that. So we were told that it might stay like that.

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