And once again I have to point to what the Alzheimers association has done. Check out these diagrams of the brain including damage pictures. Why can't our doctors use something like these to demonstrate to survivors which areas need to be recovered or compensated for.
Fascinating stuff here. I could easily see a whole bunch of slides on stroke damage.
Who's going to step up and create this?
http://www.alz.org/alzheimers_disease_4719.asp?type=eNews_footer
In the second page - supply lines this was fascinating.
With each heartbeat, arteries carry about 20 to 25 percent of your blood to your brain, where billions of cells use about 20 percent of the oxygen and fuel your blood carries.
When you are thinking hard, your brain may use up to 50 percent of the fuel and oxygen.
Since my event I am probably thinking hard 80-90% of the day. That might explain why I am exhausted all the time.
Actually Dean, they do have visual demonstrations of what area to a particular patient's brain is damaged. Believe it or not, you can get this type of info from state agencies.
ReplyDeleteAs for how hard your brain is working, I believe I had told you that according to my sources, the body (for us the brain) is continually trying to heal itself. That's exhausting work.