My Cerebellum Was Fixed

 

It's not amazing that I type. I have 1 good arm n a piece 

of brain was missed. That piece was missed n I now talk. 

@Stanford_Neuro

The cerebellum rewired n now I talk?

https://twitter.com/angelar70/status/1324058519629258753                

Here it is 16 years after surgery, and I think my cerebellum is still rewiring.

What does the cerebellum do?

The cerebellum receives information from the sensory systems, the spinal cord, and other parts of the brain and then regulates motor movements. The cerebellum coordinates voluntary movements such as posture, balance, coordination, and speech, resulting in smooth and balanced muscular activity.

Cerebellum Function, Anatomy & Definition | Body Maps

Stanford restructured my cerebellum. The AVM that bled and caused all this damage was there. They removed it. That wasn't easy. I had to go in a few times just to shrink it.

When the AVM was shrunk to operable size, it was removed. Stanford also took out scar tissue and cleaned up the area. I bet age related damage was also removed, as this is seen in my appearance. I will assume this is temporary since I keep aging.

So Stanford restructured my cerebellum. It looked good. They didn't know if they had fixed it. That would take time. The brain would have to grow.

Growing My Brain

"What happens is that there is an injury to one part of the brain—most often the left hemisphere. And there is what I called a recruitment of still-intact brain tissue elsewhere. The brain seeks to correct the imbalance and will find an undamaged area, most often in the right hemisphere. There is then rewiring to that new area..."  https://www.vice.com/en/article/bn5qew/whats-new-in-the-field-of-savant-syndrome-research-611

An area of my brain was out-right missed when I got the brain injury.

This will get some people.  The area of my brain wasn't available at the time of my injury.

The area my brain rewired to was my cerebellum. This area first had to have the anomaly, the AVM, removed, and it had to be cleaned and repaired before it could receive anything. 

Once that was done, it would have to grow. The human brain takes years. Rewiring happens during this time. I may be rewiring right now.

 

I didn't know the cerebellum did speech until I looked it up. Watching the above video, it reveals the cerebellum is involved in higher processes. How could I come up with a concept of missing information in time?

We will see as I get older. I believe my brain is still growing. I have at least 25 years from the date of surgery for brain growth (if development stops at age 25). Any time thereafter is unknown. (Calculation is another high process.)

The high processes will also be seen.

 

As for my high IQ thing, it was there before the brain injury. This writing is my second explosion of creativity. Piano was my first. My cerebellum rebooting is entangled, so they go together. Whatever you get will be enhanced.

Growing My Brain

 

Does the brain grow after age 25?  I think it 's 25 now. The legal drinking age is 21. The two coincided at 21, but when brain age went up, drinking age didn't.

It's easy to see if the brain grows at a later age. Just look at mine.

I had a massive stroke at age 32. At age 34 I had complex treatment at Stanford University and Hospital. They removed damage and injury to the cerebellum of my brain. That was 16 years ago now.

What grew back?

I couldn't do this then. Speaking was "yes/no" and a few words. Writing was out of the question. I was just starting to move this arm that I am typing with, and my other arm was still paralyzed. Something had to grow so I could do this.

 

10/14/2020

Does somebody want to look? I'm still vegetative. Last test was a barium swallow at this hospital (Merced). I didn't swallow so nothing changed. Why am I writing if I am vegetative?

If no one shows interest then to Hell with this n I quit.

Rewiring Is a Thing Now

Rewiring is a thing now. Medicine, don't hide it!

"I keep saying my case is weird. My body is still in a coma n my head is awake." I put this on a social network when I became Medicaid Waiver. Medicaid Waiver is a program set aside for the very ill. It is designed to keep a person in the community and out of the hospital.

People don't think of me as being ill. I don't have a head cold. I have a g-tube, or it is also called a feeding tube. The device isn't so scary to the community anymore, but it is serious. It is pretty much an IV that delivers its contents to the stomach and not the bloodstream.

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" Angela Ronson your body is not in a coma. Neither is your brain," Trudy Martinez. She is an Occupational Therapist.

"I would say that, technically, at this time you are a traumatic brain injury (TBI) with residual quadriparesis," Trudy Martinez. 

I've been hearing for years that a person continues to make progress after a brain injury, but no one has outright said that my diagnosis was "residual." THAT fits. I was thinking about making up the word "de-paralyzing," because my body is becoming less paralyzed.

"Angela Ronson - I was told in rehab that recovery shouldn't be looked upon as a final destination, as recovery is ongoing and lifelong. It is a journey, and that medicine, as a whole, tends to look at everything as a finality (here anyway). The words 'cure' and 'heal' are never used in that facility because they do not mean the same thing in a brain injury standpoint; so I don't use them," Lisa Rice

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It comes down to 'why so long?' You will find that there were small progressive steps along the way. I believe the progression coincides with the growth of small nodules discovered years earlier.

I've said it before. I've quoted this.

"Their quantification of white matter reorganization shows long-distance rewiring in posterior medial cortices, possibly reflecting axonal sprouting or neurite outgrowth, maybe even related to neurogenesis " happens to be Steven Laureys describing a man who was MCS, but started talking nearly 20 years later. What he is saying is that tiny nerve fibers grew and rewired. This is most likely going on with me. http://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2017/08/not-fast-enough.html

Growth does not happen overnight. ( https://thoughtfulveg.blogspot.com/2018/08/neurogenesis-is-proces
s.html )

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RESIDUAL QUADRIPARESIS- I like that word, "residual." It goes with rewiring and explains slow gradual growth.

The concept of rewiring, neuroplasticity, is so common now. I don't think it is accepted yet.