That's good information. The only real experience I have with stroke is my grandmother, and she couldn't speak or respond afterward and passed away within a couple of weeks. I've seen Fetterman talk pretty decently in other settings, like when he was on the view, but there was no pressure. My question is what are the possible issues when he's in pressure situations during senate floor debate and decision-making. If he's just fine or is going to be just fine, then why not turnover your medical records...that seems like common sense.
And I started this thread to talk about Fetterman being a viable candidate due to medical issues and just absolute blatant lying about his stance on fracking. It wasn't meant to be a Democrat vs. Republican thing.
These are only my educated and experiential opinions, but I am a stroke survivor. So my opinions carry some weight. On your point with your grandmother(Chris) the younger you are and the better health you are in when the stroke happens the better your chances of recovery.(No matter which type.) I was 24 and in perfect health, and I had a hemorrhagic stroke. If it happened when I was 65, I would not be in the shape I am in. Your grandmother and Fetterman, probably had an ischemic stroke.
This is not exactly the definition of the types of stroke, but for current conversation it will simplify it, and suffice. A hemorrhagic stroke is from trauma to the brain.(football, car wreck, hammer blow, etc.) Ischemic comes from a bleed that occurs without any trauma, usually from health situations of age and/or self abuse of your body. tPA, if administered within the first 0-4 hours will cure all or many of the symptoms of an Ischemic stroke.(doesn't do anything for hemorrhagic stroke)
I imagine Fetterman got treated with tPA.
During the first couple of years it was really really rough. I had to rebuild my mental function almost from scratch. My surgeon saw me a few weeks from my surgery, and was dumbfounded that I was able to conjugate a full sentence. But it was a really simple sentence. Something like, 'I'm ok.' or 'Yes I can.'(in response to him)
He is starting out. way ahead of me. And the things he is dealing with as I said are superficial problems not cognitive. Remembering the word for an upright thing that a flag hangs from.(Pole) Or remembering the word for very talkative.(loquacious) It doesn't matter how simple or complex the word is, he will struggle to find either one. It is an association thing. This is aphasia when you know a word or name but can't remember the actual word.
The physical things will fix themselves quicker than the mental. Him hearing and comprehending is not exactly physical, but in certain respects it is. This will likely heal quicker than aphasia. The stuttering and difficulty saying words is physical in some respects as well. That will heal quicker. And as I said these are superficial difficulties, not cognitive.
The brain is thinking a thought, but frustrated that the superficial problem's are causing him to struggle in expressing them. You might not believe it, but that frustration is almost equal to the mental problems he will be having. It occupies a lot of time in your brain.
It took me a long time to reach 100% of what I would recover.(15 years) But the longer you get in your recovery the more gradual it gets. He has a lot less ground to cover, and easier tasks of recovery to cover. His recovery will likely be 95%-100%, when it's all said and done. That is speculative, but the odds are incredibly good. I'd say the odds of that kind of recovery are 80-90% accurate for most patients with his problems. He doesn't appear to have lost much if any, of his cognitive thinking.
I'm thinking his recovery will be 2-4 years, but the things he recovers during most of that time will be minor, and not intrinsic to him functioning as a congressman. Do I think he would have a tough first 3 or 4 months in office, yes. Do I think he could handle his job despite those problems, probably. (Not that it matters, but he could already be a better congressman than Herschel Walker even with the disabilities he presently has.)
Three months from now you will see a noticeable change, and during the next three an equally noticeable change. Yes it would be better if this happened to him six or eight months earlier. The disability would be easier to cover, and easier to work around. If he won, I would hope they would allow him to have an aid with him on the floor most of the time.(like his wife, or someone he hired) This would allow him to stay organized, and concentrate on the things of most importance.
Yes, before 2016, I would have said release your medical records, to let people understand your situation.
Now, I'm not so certain. It doesn't matter if he's Democrat or Republican, the other party would pore over those medical records and find something to hit him on over and over. It wouldn't matter if the point they were making was really an issue or not, they would run with it. Civility and a moral sense of what should be done or not done has gone out the window. So I understand his hesitance.
Do I want him to win? Yes and no. No because of some of his policy beliefs. Yes because it would help people to understand that someone can function coming off a recent stroke, depending on the disabilities they have. I don't think he would be a bad congressman based on mental performance.
Sorry for the novella.
