Originally Posted by
berner
I've read somewhere or other that our brains consume a very large portion of the total energy available. This means that a stressful day at a desk job can consume as much energy as pick and shovel work.
This is what I'm referring to when I talk about the fatigue of the brain injury. It is brain fatigue but can manifest itself as physical fatigue ... and there are other ways it manifests itself too.
One friend, who has had a brain injury described it as though every trip outside was like an intense IMAX theatre experience with everything coming at you and noise and commotion etc. Even walking along a sidewalk next to a busy street can be problematic.
So at this point is isn't necessarily that Rowan can't physically ride a bicycle or trike or whatever outside ... it's that, very quickly, it would be too much for him in all aspects.
So we walk instead.
Another 1.3 km walk today, with quite a long break sitting in the park. This is the park with the historic headstone walls.
