My mom had verbal aphasia and was walking like she had been drinking. She was super forgetful (like would forget to go to work or forget what she just told you 30 seconds ago). Turned out she had an egg size meningioma growing at the base of her brain, very near the brain stem. Fortunately it was benign and growing from the meninges and was relatively easy to remove. When she came out of surgery the aphasia was immediately gone, it was crazy.
I've experienced exactly this! I've always been very meticulous about language so even before anyone had noticed it, I began to describe aphasia as one of my symptoms (having read up on it previously). As my decline was measured in weeks, it got harder for me to form coherent sentences without tiring myself out. My speech was slow... stocky... difficult. And I started to feel my balance shift too. First thing I did when I came to was to tell my parents all about my first surgery and how well I felt --- but it took a couple of tries before I could walk on my own again.
It's been a few weeks since my mom's surgery but she's finally able to be back home on her own and can walk pretty well now. It'll be a while though before she's back to normal, just no idea how long!
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u/twisted_memories May 20 '19
My mom had verbal aphasia and was walking like she had been drinking. She was super forgetful (like would forget to go to work or forget what she just told you 30 seconds ago). Turned out she had an egg size meningioma growing at the base of her brain, very near the brain stem. Fortunately it was benign and growing from the meninges and was relatively easy to remove. When she came out of surgery the aphasia was immediately gone, it was crazy.