UZ Pellenberg, May 2017 When my children were small, six o’clock seemed very late.Sometimes it was just too late.They had played and learned all day…
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
Living with a visual impairment after a non-traumatic brain injury
UZ Pellenberg, May 2017 When my children were small, six o’clock seemed very late.Sometimes it was just too late.They had played and learned all day…
I was born in 1961, in a different country and in very different times. I was born in the city of Leeds, in England, and…
Sometimes, from the tranquility of the rehabilitation center, I had to visit UZ Gasthuisberg, where it was always very busy. I went on the internal…
UZ Pellenberg April, 2017 My breakfast mainly consists of individual portions.Bread: four slices, packed airtight in transparent plastic; margarine: one small plastic portion like you’d…
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.…