My grandmother has been a very important person throughout my life. My entire childhood was spent with her, but once I started getting older, it has been hard to keep up with each other. During this time of our distant relationship, she happened to experience a ruptured brain aneurysm, and I have never gotten the opportunity to sit down with her and learn more about this. She cannot recall anything that happened after when she was experiencing symptoms up until four to five months post insult, so I also referred to my mom and her husband for this information.
To start off the conversation, we began talking about the morning leading up to the event. She and her husband woke up at their normal time and went through their normal morning routines: …show more content…
A few things they would work on together were addition and multiplication booklets, writing letters of the alphabet, and counting change. She also started seeing a physical therapist around this time, and this is around the time that she could recall. In therapy they would work on mobility, strength, fine motor skills, as well as gait and balance. Her favorite sessions were those in the pool. One specific time during her years of therapy that she will never forget was the session where she lost everything. She told me her exact words to the therapist: “I could do everything yesterday. What is wrong with me? Why can’t I do anything today?” She said the therapist looked down and lowered his head and said, “I’m not sure Linda”. It turned out to be that her shunt was having a major complication, so they had to go in again and fix …show more content…
One major downside to this is not being able to ride horses anymore. She has been riding horses since she was five, but she was told she should discontinue this activity. She was heartbroken. A couple other things that she mentioned were numbness in her fingers and occasional short-term memory loss. She admitted that she will get up to do something, but she will soon forget what she was going to do. I have also noticed she has a tendency to repeat the same questions while having a conversation. This could also be from her short attention span that I have noticed. She seems to zone out when talking to her, so I think the reason why she asks questions over again is because she was not listening to the answer the first time. Something that is quite scary that she says occurs every once in a while is that she will get terrible headaches or pains in her neck that are usually due to her shunt. My mom also stated that my grandmother has times where her mood will be inconsistent and
To start off the conversation, we began talking about the morning leading up to the event. She and her husband woke up at their normal time and went through their normal morning routines: …show more content…
A few things they would work on together were addition and multiplication booklets, writing letters of the alphabet, and counting change. She also started seeing a physical therapist around this time, and this is around the time that she could recall. In therapy they would work on mobility, strength, fine motor skills, as well as gait and balance. Her favorite sessions were those in the pool. One specific time during her years of therapy that she will never forget was the session where she lost everything. She told me her exact words to the therapist: “I could do everything yesterday. What is wrong with me? Why can’t I do anything today?” She said the therapist looked down and lowered his head and said, “I’m not sure Linda”. It turned out to be that her shunt was having a major complication, so they had to go in again and fix …show more content…
One major downside to this is not being able to ride horses anymore. She has been riding horses since she was five, but she was told she should discontinue this activity. She was heartbroken. A couple other things that she mentioned were numbness in her fingers and occasional short-term memory loss. She admitted that she will get up to do something, but she will soon forget what she was going to do. I have also noticed she has a tendency to repeat the same questions while having a conversation. This could also be from her short attention span that I have noticed. She seems to zone out when talking to her, so I think the reason why she asks questions over again is because she was not listening to the answer the first time. Something that is quite scary that she says occurs every once in a while is that she will get terrible headaches or pains in her neck that are usually due to her shunt. My mom also stated that my grandmother has times where her mood will be inconsistent and