The frantic patient who cannot speak…

All of you working in healthcare facilities can probably picture the frantic patient; the patient who cannot speak, who perhaps has had a stroke and is banging on the bed table, red-faced and desperately trying to talk, to tell you something…

Is he in pain? It could be the pain of unrelieved pressure in his ischial tuberosities. We’d better make sure it’s not the development of pressure injuries / ulcers!

Has he forgotten his name? Forgotten where he lives? Frantic because he doesn’t know why he is in hospital… Nobody has explained. He wants his wife but cannot remember her name or phone number??

Here’s the true story of one stroke survivor and his lengthy challenge trying to understand what’s happened and his desperate need to talk.

See ‘Letters in a Lake’ at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZJOE7G