Ma,
Sorry to hear about your stroke.
Sounds like the damage was on the left side of your brain?
Of course, always comply with your doctor's prescriptions and medication schedule (i.e., heparin or other blood thinning, anticoagulant/antithrombo-emboli drugs).
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Maintain a scrupulous, highly nutritious diet and keep well hydrated.
Stay consistent and progressively challenge yourself when performing your speech and physical therapies.
If you have diminished vision in one eye (probably your left eye, because brain to body contra-signalling doesn't begin until below the neck), I suggest temporarily patching the better eye's side of your glasses.
Read different sized and multi-colored text BID - 5 minute sessions at first, then progressively longer as tolerated.
It forces your weak eye to work more than usual (a.k.a. ocular musculo-neurological exercise) and rehabilitates (or forces new) eye to brain pathways.
I'd focus less on handwriting and more on right (weak) hand typing on your iPad's keyboard.
Like handwriting, it also enhances hand/eye coordination without using different gauge pencils or pens. You simply change the size of the letters on the keyboard.
Get my sister - the software engineer - to download and install two types of apps for your iPad, phone and computer. One app turns your typed text into speech "TTS". The other app turns your speech into text "STT".
There are several TTS and STT apps for iPad, iPhone (IOS), Android, Windows and Linux platforms.
How can I confidently recommend all the above?
Because after my Arterial Gas Embolism incident (from underwater diving operations in the military), I had much of the same symptoms that you are experiencing now (albeit, from air instead of blood or lipid emboli).
The combination of hyperbaric treatment, therapies and my young age helped me recover quickly from the physical and neurological deficits caused by the AGE.
Your grandchildren and I are fine. Thanks for the update and birthday wish.
You just get well soon.
Love, your son.
