Chris
12-26-2012, 06:50 PM
Kind of an interesting case in terms of how it was discovered:
...Here was the conservation, which is reproduced in the Dec. 24 online edition of the Archives of Neurology:
Husband: So what's the deal?
Wife: every where thinging days nighing
W: Some is where!
H: What the hell does that mean?
H: You're not making any sense.
H: July 24, right?
W: J 30
H: July 30?
W: Yes
H: Oh ok, I'm worried about your confusing answers
W: But I think
H: Think what?
W: What I think with be fine
Doctors later noted the woman had trouble accurately filling out her intake form at the obstetrician; she also recalled feeling weakness in her right arm and leg earlier that had lasted a few minutes before going away.
Emergency room doctors at a Boston-area hospital examined the woman and noted "dysphasia," a language problem caused by brain damage that caused her to say the wrong words and rearrange proper speech sounds. Also known as asphasia, the condition can result in difficulty in expressing oneself when speaking, trouble understanding speech, and difficulty with reading and writing, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....
@ "Dystextia": Stroke diagnosed with help of garbled text message (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57560856/dystextia-stroke-diagnosed-with-help-of-garbled-text-message/)
...Here was the conservation, which is reproduced in the Dec. 24 online edition of the Archives of Neurology:
Husband: So what's the deal?
Wife: every where thinging days nighing
W: Some is where!
H: What the hell does that mean?
H: You're not making any sense.
H: July 24, right?
W: J 30
H: July 30?
W: Yes
H: Oh ok, I'm worried about your confusing answers
W: But I think
H: Think what?
W: What I think with be fine
Doctors later noted the woman had trouble accurately filling out her intake form at the obstetrician; she also recalled feeling weakness in her right arm and leg earlier that had lasted a few minutes before going away.
Emergency room doctors at a Boston-area hospital examined the woman and noted "dysphasia," a language problem caused by brain damage that caused her to say the wrong words and rearrange proper speech sounds. Also known as asphasia, the condition can result in difficulty in expressing oneself when speaking, trouble understanding speech, and difficulty with reading and writing, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke....
@ "Dystextia": Stroke diagnosed with help of garbled text message (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57560856/dystextia-stroke-diagnosed-with-help-of-garbled-text-message/)