UZ Pellenberg, June 2020 Sunday evening, 9:00 PM, back in my room at Pellenberg, after a long weekend at home. This has been a difficult…
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
UZ Pellenberg, June 2020 Sunday evening, 9:00 PM, back in my room at Pellenberg, after a long weekend at home. This has been a difficult…
When I first posted “difficulties with dressing” on my Facebook page, many people told me that what I described happens to everyone sometimes. I know…
UZ Pellenberg, May 2017 Six simple line drawings. Together they tell a story, and all I have to do is put them in the only…
UZ Pellenberg, April 2017 There is a map in the dining room . It’s very simple. All the tables are depicted very clearly, with the…
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 my regular walks in the stroke unit, I was often confronted with my new limitations. For example, I became aware that I see very…