Hell, my quality of life has improved tremendously since my stroke. You just aren't asking the right questions.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/267090.php
For every 5 quality years of life, 3 are taken away for people
who have had a stroke, long-term research has found - a loss of 60%.
The study, published in Neurology, the journal of the American Academy of Neurology, involved 1,188 patients - 748 who had a stroke and 440 who had a transient ischemic attack (TIA). Researchers followed these patients for 5 years.
The researchers used a measure called utility, which put a numerical
value on the desirability of various health outcomes for patients
responding to a questionnaire.
Utility represents quality of life in single numbers along a continuum,
extending from 0.0 (death) to 1.0 ("perfect health"). A negative value
represents a state "worse than death."
More at link.
What are the right questions?
ReplyDeleteHow has your quality of life improved?
I recently read your post about how if it hasn't been five years, you probably haven't reached acceptance yet. I've just passed my one-year mark. I don't think I've found acceptance yet. You may have a post already about how long it's been for you and whether you've reached acceptance, but if I go to look for it, I'll forget why, and get distracted by something else and never send this, so I apologize for not knowing your background yet.