‘My Words Are Like an Uncontrollable Dog’: On Life With Nonfluent Aphasia
"When I open my mouth, I am bracing for impact."
By: Jonathan Cole
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Faye’s severe stroke arrived in her early 20s, and now, two decades later, she can look back at the experience and at its residual effects. She was 21 and an assistant manager in a bank when one morning she developed double vision. She thought it was a migraine, so her boss suggested she go home. Her sister worked opposite and agreed to pick her up. Faye then waited outside from eleven till five to be taken home and thought nothing of it. Logic was beginning to leave her.
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