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Will:
"It made life a lot easier when it was divided into goals,
similar to having chapters in a book
as opposed to having to choose
where and when to start and stop. I really didn't know where to
start because their were so much to do. Sam made my rehabilitation
a whole lot easier by helping me prioritising what I wanted to
improve, such as speech, reading, writing and memory. Then seperating
what I had to do into smaller comprehensible chunks and setting
goals. So each day I finished I felt positive as I could notice
how much I had improved."
Carlos:
“I didn’t
know what I was going to do with the rest of my life. All my
dreams from before my stroke just went away. I thought I wasn’t
going to be able to have any of those dreams because I couldn’t
speak anymore – both my Spanish and English had gone.
I didn’t know where I was going … Sam helped motivate
me to get some goals, but not straight away … step by
step. Sam helped me break down the
goals I had and focus first on getting back to things I feel
more comfortable with … smaller steps first. The stairs
… she always drew stairs … how I remember the stairs!
Smaller steps first, which really are the most difficult to
start. Once you start, it gets easier and easier. It’s
just going past the first step that’s really hard …
I learnt if you always hope too much from the beginning and
you don’t get to the finish straight away, then you don’t
ever begin to work yourself. Now, in my life … I always
think about that first step…"
Ian:
“A
major problem, such as ‘confidence using the telephone’
would be termed a long term goal and we then discussed breaking
this down into short term goals that could be dealt with in
stages.
In this way I was shown how a problem that I had feared
(and disliked myself for fearing) was changed from an all-enveloping
cloud into a much less daunting series of problems. I felt like
I was at college and the subject being studied was myself, and
this was a major part of my starting to accept what had happened
to me, that I had a future, that all was not lost and new experiences
could be had. Keeping
a diary of goals, achievements and problems is still an important
part of my life, a personal reference book helping me to see
progress or understand the reason if I am feeling despondent."
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