Allegedly the post stroke personality change affects more men than women.
The gender split at stroke club is approximately 50/50.
There are at least four men at stroke club who can be unpleasant and difficult to deal with, Steve is never difficult at stroke club.
There is one woman at stroke club who is unpleasant and difficult.
As I didn't know any of these people pre-stroke I have no idea if their behaviour has been caused by their stroke.
Scrimping and saving, ranting and raving. Past retirement age.
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A friend of mine (female) suffered a stroke which left her with a slight limp, no aggressiveness or altered behaviours apart from her speech - she ended up with a broad South African accent!! She had never been out of the UK, didn't know any South Africans and has never been given any explanation hos this could have happened. The mind is indeed a very strange thing and there's so much we don't understand.
My dad was always quite quick tempered, but it was always over quickly, and he never sulked.
After his first stroke however, he would fly off the handle at next to nothing, he'd stay in a temper for hours on end and could have made sulking into an Olympic sport!
However, a friend from my workplace had a stroke, yet turned more even tempered, kinder, more tolerant, and developed a brilliant sense of humour!
I honestly don't know how you cope Sue! Well, actually I do, in exactly the same way as my mum coped with my dad; love!
He wasn't in any way the man she had married, but she still loved him, so she gritted her teeth and got on with it! X
My mum had a bad stroke aged 56.She was no different outwardly after really, possibly a bit sad at times which was understandable.She could no longer walk as her left side was so badly affected.She still had her sense of humour and friendly.Sadly therapy didn't work for my mum as she had cancer too which I later found out possibly caused her stroke.I never found this out until after she died as she kept it a secret from me x
The loss of our functions is bound to make us sad.
With a stroke it can happen in a moment, so there is shock as well. We are dealing with Parkinson's which is a gradual failure , inch by inch. I now know so many people with this disease ( and I mean randomly know them, not through a group) that I really believe people died with it years ago and we just didn't know they had it.
I wonder if Steve's attitude is controlled at stroke club there maybe ways he could be helped to tone down the difficult side at home.
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