August 24. I've jumped ahead a bit. The last week has been very challenging. The days and nights are full of events of dad being confused. The nights are just as bad, waking up to hearing hime yelling, HEY!. And finding out he's dreaming.
My son bought a program from a company called, "Proloque". http://www.assistiveware.com/index.php The company specializes in speech assistance programs. They may only provide programs for Mac users. I'm not sure at this point. My son down loaded the program into an iPad. I tried to work with dad on the program that uses flash cards and pronounces the words. Dad couldn't say the words. Just looked blankly at the little computer. I pulled up a picture of a toilet, and asked dad, did he know what it was. He looked for a few seconds and said no.
I took dad to his follow up appointment for his hospital stay. The doctor talked to dad and said that there was Wernickes involvement. I found out from the good ol' internet after we got home that Wernickes area is next to the Broca area. Both on the left side of the brain. The doctor said when there is Wernickes damage, the patient is unable to understand language, unable to speak understandably. Here is a link from YouTube of a patient with a Wernickes stroke.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67HMx-TdAZI&p=9CC5D854FF3E2DB8&playnext=1&index=29
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