Locked-in Syndrome


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Full name: Manuel Longo
Email: ml@mlongo.net
Nationality: Malta
Date of birth: 13-MAY-1962
Date of accident: 21-SEP-2000
Type of accident: Stroke
Present Location: Nursing Home
Present condition: Totally paralyzed, mute but can swallow and move head

Full name: Linda Wheeler
Email: lindajane1234@yahoo.com
Nationality: United States of America
Date of birth: 17-AUG-1958
Date of accident: 20-DEC-2002
Type of accident: Stroke
Present Location: Home
Present condition: Able to eat everything but hard foods like steak. Still working on learning how to walk and talk.

Full name: JENNIFER LYNN
Email: JENANNLYNN@AOL.COM
Nationality: United States of America
Date of birth: 08-AUG-2009
Date of accident: 16-MAR-2004
Type of accident: Stroke
Present Location: Home
Present condition: I HAD A BRAINSTEM STROKE, & WAS LOCKED-IN 4 SEVERAL MONTHS. I HAD A CATHTER, TRACHE, & G-TUBE. NOW I HAVE NO TUBES. I AM IN A WHEELCHAIR, BUT IF HELD RIGHT, I CAN WALK, DESPITE BEING PARALYZED ON MY LEFT SIDE! I CAN SAY A FEW GARBLED WORDS, I CAN WRITE, I CAN MOVE MY HEAD & RIGHT ARM...DESPITE DOUBLE VISION, I'M A PUBLISHED DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKER. I WAS ALSO PUBLISHED IN AN LDS CHURCH MAGAZINE, THE ENSIGN, DESPITE TYPING THE ARTICLE WITH 1 FINGER! 2 FOLLOW MY RECOVERY, I HAVE A BLOG/WEBSITE, WWW.JENANNLYNN.COM

Full name: Lorna Elwick
Email: lorna.elwick@ntlworld.com
Nationality: United Kingdom
Date of birth: 18-JUL-1952
Date of accident: 15-JUN-1993
Type of accident: Other
Present Location: Home
Present condition: no longer truly locked-in. With strangers, I am but with cares and close friends and relatives, I mouthe the shapes of letters/words with tiny movements, which they are able to lip-read. I have fairly good head movement, I learnt to eat and drink over a period of 2 years, I have a urostomy and colostomy (which are brilliant), I also use a computer via SmartNav so I'm very lucky as far as people who have this condion go.


Full name: David Thulin
Email: david.thulin@gmail.com
Nationality: Sweden
Date of birth: 04-DEC-1979
Date of accident: 18-AUG-2009
Type of accident: Stroke
Present Location: Home
Present condition: After spending months "locked-in" I am no longer carrying that diagnosis. Now I am "just" mostly paralyzed and mute.

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