Stroke affected people

I wrote an article on stroke affected people (SAP). I am writing about SAP, who leave the acute hospital with one side paralyzed and at least three years recovery in front of them. Now we know that many diseases are staged up to four in seriousness and hope of recovery. Our SAPs start at stage four, having escaped the statistical 1 in 20 death.

Welcome to the stroke recovery chain rising from four to one!

It is logical to follow out SAPs through their recovery journey because their adverse stroke affects can be measured over time and between people, and, you can never have too much logic if you want to sift truth from all the stuff written about stroke.

In my case, I think I left the acute hospital in the high third stage recovery unit. Now in mid-2016 I think I am at level 2.5 – 2.3. The spread is to encompass human testing error. Now, why stop at stage one? As a one hander, I have no idea of how SAPs with two unaffected hands go about their recovery. I cannot claim any sole rights to the four to one concept of stroke recovery. It is so obvious that others must have worked in out, the difficult part is to assign values to each adverse affect, for example, a frozen arm to a drooping eyelid. Sorry to bring in personal affects but it is a good and easy example of the possible distance between affects. I have excluded lightly affected stroke people who will travel through the stages at speed. Then there are stroke team researchers who test their work by the numbers of patients going to independent living, or treatment ‘A’ against treatment ‘B’. I will leave them to their independent lives. There won’t be any one handers among them.

So who is left to stage our SAP in the 4 to 1 recovery chain? Easy, the clinical information is contained in the relevant acute hospital, rehab hospital, non-residential clinic and the records of the dozen or so visiting specialists and therapists. It is a statistician’s bountiful supply of information with no end in sight. Enough.