Originally Posted by
Machka
Rowan has commenced Post Traumatic Amnesia testing. They use the Westmead test here, which you can google if you're interested.
When he successfully completes the testing, he will be declared out of Post Traumatic Amnesia and into the next phase of his recovery.
When will that occur? Well, as usual, that depends on him. Could be days ... or a week, or two, or ...
But sooner would be better than later.
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I may have said this (my own memory is a bit dodgy just now!) ...
There are a large number of articles on Post Traumatic Amnesia, and I’ve looked through a bunch, but these two are probably the best in the sense that they are concise and straightforward. Many of the others go into long, technical descriptions of testing and all sorts of things which might be worth reading as well. But for something relatively brief, these are the best I’ve found.
This is from the Queensland Government, a Brisbane hospital.
https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au...c-amnersia.pdf
This is another one from Victoria Government, a Melbourne hospital.
https://www.thermh.org.au/sites/defa...V4.0_10.17.pdf
If you are interested in what Rowan (and I) are going through, check out those articles and check out Google for Post Traumatic Amnesia and Severe Brain Injury.
At the moment, Rowan is missing most of the last 8-ish months. It's kind of hard to tell exactly where his memory stops because on the odd occasion, he'll recall something more recent.
Prior to 8-ish months, he remembers pieces.
Now yesterday and today were an adventure.
"They" predicted 40-80 mm of rain from a low pressure system that was supposed to pass over the area. On Thursday (yesterday), it rained all day and by the time I went home, there had been about 25 mm of rain which is quite a decent rainfall for this area. The average rainfall for the month of May here is 45 mm ... so 25 mm between 9 am and 7 pm is a decent chunk of that.
Shortly after I got home, it really started to rain in earnest ... like being in the midst of Niagara Falls! 48 mm dropped in 1 hour!! That's a month's worth of rain here in 1 hour.
By the time 24 hours was up 129.2 mm (5 inches) of rain had fallen.
While all that rain was falling, we also had a massive thunderstorm that lasted about 2 hours. Tasmania rarely gets thunderstorms, so to have one that just went on and on was incredible. And it lodged itself right over the house for about half an hour. At one point, I was walking down the hallway when it appeared that the entire front room lit up (and I had all the curtains pulled), and before I could even process that, the thunder cracked and set the whole house shaking ... me included!
The wind and ocean were roaring as well. No sleep till about 2:30 am when things finally died off to a somewhat more normal pouring rain and howling wind.
And meanwhile, I was watching videos being posted on Facebook of streets in the middle of Hobart becoming roaring rivers and taking cars away ... and the university I attend being inundated.
The thing that concerned me was that the streets which were becoming roaring rivers were right around the hospital where Rowan is. I kept checking every couple hours through the night to see whether or not the hospital was being evacuated.
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Today, travel to the city was not advised, and my employer contacted me and told me to stay home. But the hospital called me twice (two different specialists) and asked that I come in because it was all business as usual there, and all of a sudden that had all kinds of questions for me.
I mentioned that I wasn't in yet because of the weather event and got "well, we came in!" <<sigh>>
Anyway, I managed to get into the hospital, and one of the things Rowan and I did was to go for a walk ... 100 metres or maybe a bit more on the floor where Rowan is!! He did really well.