One lasting consequence of the stroke is that I can no longer store new faces in my memory. The faces I knew from before the…
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
One lasting consequence of the stroke is that I can no longer store new faces in my memory. The faces I knew from before the…
Perhaps the biggest problem I have with my vision is called visual simultagnosia. When I look at something, I experience it very differently than before.…
As I write this, most Belgians are staying at home, and the news is almost exclusively about the coronavirus. In two weeks, our lives have…
I have nothing but praise for the people who worked with me during my rehabilitation. They are all heroes to me! But that doesn’t alter…
UZ Gasthuisberg, March 2017 8:00 am.I wake up and look at the clock. It’s on the wall opposite the end of my bed, where I…
During those early days in Gasthuisberg I did a lot of walking in the corridors of the stroke-unit. I was always accompanied by one of…
During my regular walks in the stroke unit, I was often confronted with my new limitations. For example, I became aware that I see very…
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, of course, but it inevitably does, the extent to which your emotions are affected by a brain injury. Unexpected…