If you don't hear something like this from your doctor s/he is not being truthful with you. Your doctor then really knows nothing about your recovery, run, run run away.
Dear stroke patient,
You are among the lucky ones who survived a stroke. 33% don't survive. In the next week or so a whole bunch of neurons will continue dying due to the neuronal cascade of death. 'There is no clinical research for any neuroprotective treatment in the first week' so for right now we can't do anything about that. You may notice some additional deficits cropping up. That is normal. Your recovery is going to be a massive amount of hard work on your part. Your therapists can suggest and supervise exercises but you have to do all the work. There are no shortcuts, no magic. The amount of your recovery is completely up to you, if you don't put in the work you'll barely get anything back. From now on everything you do will need to be done the hard slow way if you expect the best recovery. It is not impossible, you can read about Pedro Bach-y-rita and his recovery here;
http://oc1dean.blogspot.com/2011/05/brainstem-stroke-recovery.html
We really know nothing about how to cure your spasticity or fatigue or prevent your upcoming dementia.
Dean, I actually heard most of this from my neuro following my stroke. Exception the neurnal cascade of death bit. I had to find this out from you. She simply said, It's up to you. Your brain. Your limitations. How hard you work and still not produce results. Spasticity, fatigue, and dementia are still huge gray areas. It depends on how hard and long you want to fight against it. Then, she asked if I was a fighter and had a stubborn streak a mile long. Yep, that's me.
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