Comments : Locked-in syndrome (acrostic)

  • 7 years ago

    by Brenda

    Michael, this is amazing! You have so accurately given a voice to someone who has suffered a stroke. It's a hard read but wonderfully written. All the best-Brenda

  • 7 years ago

    by Hellon

    It must be so frustrating for anyone to suffer a life such as you've described so well here. My only hope is that (if there is a person that you know who is suffering) they are in the latter years of their life and not some otherwise healthy person who has ended up this way due to a sporting injury.

  • 7 years ago

    by Augustus Black

    Hello Sir,

    Another professional write.

    This write of yours is filled with excessive melancholy, each and every lines is just delivering forth great pain and sobbing. I believe that you are a great observer of things and why not, you have got a great experience of writing. The one who observe things in the approved manner is a real poet.

    Each lines is telling what exactly happens with a person who go through this.

    The last line is totally mind blowing.

    Great stuff.

  • 7 years ago

    by Em

    Ahh I hate when that happens.. Just wrote a huge comment for my phone to freeze and delete it all :/ I will try again hopefully with luck.

    Michael, this is so emotional and sad. As augastus said each line is filled with descriptions and real live emotion of how a person going through this would feel.
    I have a friend who has recently had 2 massive strokes and 3 mini ones in the last couple of months and you have described so we'll her emotions in this piece without knowing her which is so strange as it feels so personal to you like you've witnessed it first hand possibly with a loved one or just thought a lot about how it would feel.
    My friend was rushed to Salford royal (local hospital from us that has the best neuro ward) and when I was first thought to have a brain tumour I was rushed up there for urgent scans and referral and lumbar punctures and met many people who had had strokes and this describes what they had become also the pain that these people must endure is somewhat horrific because they cannot do anything about it even if they wished to and was allowed.

    All the best, Em

    • 7 years ago

      by Mr. Darcy

      Thank you all for your comments.

      Em, best wishes for your friend.

  • 7 years ago

    by Em

    Thanks Michael. And luck from here too if it's needed (hugs)