You can’t pick your parents, and you can’t pick the side of your brain that you damage.
I always thought that injuries to the left side of the brain would be the worst, because that’s where the language centers generally are. And talking is basically all I do. But after seeing uncountable numbers of strokes and brain injuries, I’ve changed my mind. Right brain injuries are worse.
The right side of the brain controls attention, memory, reasoning, and problem-solving. Very often, people who have an injury to the right side of their brain have very bad insight into their deficits (anosognosia). Let me tell you, it’s really hard to recover from brain damage if you don’t even recognize that you have a problem. Also, many people with right brain injuries become absolutely obsessed with their bowels. Even more so than my elderly parents.
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