Tag: sequels

I've revamped my web and blog with some help from AI and a new technical stack. This is what has happened since last time I wrote here.

After Juan's surgery, bradypsychia and bradylalia became very noticeable, but music seemed to help speed up his responses.

A nervous system is similar to an electrical circuit. If you cut an electrical circuit, an accidental connection between two points of different potential can happen. When electrical circuits in the brain are cut due to a stroke (or a surgery, in my case), abnormal electrical activity can be generated in several parts of the brain. This kind of abnormal electrical activity episodes appear in the form of epilepsy.

When most people hear about memory deficits or memory problems, they tend to just think about forgetting trivial things like what they ate yesterday. But there are symptoms secondary to memory deficits that most people probably doesn't even think about.

I think one of the most difficult to explain consequence of my brain injury is time confusion. If someone asks you what day we are on, you'll probably be able to answer with security and confidence in just milliseconds, or at least seconds. I know it can be difficult to understand, but I wasn't able to answer with that confidence to the same question the first weeks after my surgery.

The first weeks (or even months) after my brain surgery, I experienced a state of extreme confusion. It was probably related to my memory problems (which I already talked about in my first post), but I seem to remember I felt like being the main character of a surreal movie.

Most people relate the brain with thoughts and mental processes, but the brain also plays a main role in our physical feelings and movements. If something touches your finger, a nerve impulse will go from your finger to your brain through the nervous system. That's what makes you realize that something touched your finger.