u/Dazzling_Childhood22

Can you tell me how much recovery you’ve made since your stroke?

1.Are you able to get out of bed on your own?

2.Can you communicate in long sentences and have normal conversations or tell a complete story?

3.Can you tell when you need to urinate or have a bowel movement? Are you able to go to the bathroom and use the toilet on your own?

4.How much do you sleep during the day?

5.Are you able to use your phone, eat, and brush your teeth independently?

6.How much movement and strength do you have in your affected arm and leg now?

Please reply. My dad has stroke in nov last year and trying to find where he is in terms of expected progress.

Thanks in Advance!

He never tells us when he needs to have a bowel movement, and then he ends up passing stool in diapers.

I wanted to understand what level of recovery we should ideally expect after one year following a stroke, especially since he also had sepsis during his recovery. He had stroke one year back in left basal ganglia and internal capsule. Post that he has sepsis 6 months back. He is now stable , replies whenever we ask something but never talks by his own.

My main goal is for my dad to eventually be able to sit up on his own without assistance. He tries to sit up, but he gets stuck when he needs to push himself up, particularly from the right side/shoulder. Even when he tries to use the other side, he has to put in a lot of effort and still cannot get himself up independently. He has some extra weight in his upper body, which may also make it more difficult for him. At this point, he spends almost all of his time lying in bed.

Another major concern is his swallowing. He still has difficulty swallowing liquids, even after almost a year.

The most important issue for us, however, is his awareness and communication regarding his bladder and bowel needs. Earlier, the doctor had mentioned that he had a neurogenic bladder. It has now been almost a year, but he still usually does not tell us when he needs to urinate or have a bowel movement. Occasionally, he tells us, but most of the time he does not.

Sometimes we can actually see that he appears to be straining or seems to be trying to have a bowel movement. However, when we ask him whether he has had a bowel movement or needs to use the toilet, he may say no. Very rarely, he does tell us that he needs to use the toilet or that he has had a bowel movement.

Because of this, we are concerned about whether he is able to recognize the sensation of needing to urinate or have a bowel movement, whether he understands what that sensation means, and whether he is able to communicate it to us.

At this stage, after one year, how much further recovery can we realistically expect? Is it still possible for him to make significant progress with sitting independently, mobility, swallowing, and bladder/bowel awareness and communication? If so, what kind of timeline should we expect, and what type of rehabilitation or therapy would be most helpful for these specific issues?

My aunt dies because of blood thinner and my father already had hematoma once and doctor stopped his routine blood thinner but after that he again asked to start but we dint give thinking about our aunt case and now he got stroke. Not able to forget this

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My father had a stroke 5 months ago, and 2 months ago he developed sepsis. Since then, his alertness has been very low. He is still alert enough to open his eyes and follow basic commands, but not alert enough to safely eat by mouth. That is why we are feeding him through a Ryle tube, because we are always scared of aspiration.

Even during swallowing therapy, he keeps dozing off and is unable to stay properly alert, and for oral feeding he needs to be much more awake and attentive.

Right now, whenever we do physical therapy for him, he keeps getting fevers very frequently, along with sore throat symptoms, as if he catches viral infections easily. Low-grade fever happens very often, because of which he has been on antibiotics many times. But we also cannot keep giving repeated antibiotic courses because that can disturb his gut bacteria and cause other problems.

In this situation, what should be done according to you? If we stop physical therapy, his hands and legs may stop improving because he had recovered quite a lot after the stroke, although he still cannot sit by himself. But when we try to do PT at home, he does not cooperate much. My mother says that PT is causing more harm than benefit, so what should we do now?

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