That Funny Feeling

Liam had speech and occupational therapy today.

I told his speech therapist about how we ended up in the ER because Liam communicated (after choices) that he had a "funny feeling" in his face.

Want to know what she said?

She said that often as patients are recovering from a stroke they will get a tingling or numbing sensation as the nerves reconnect. 

I admitted that nobody ever told us that.

My guess is that feeling probably surprised Liam, or even scared him, and that is why he was crying.

I'm not sure if I wouldn't have taken him into the ER knowing this, because even the therapist admitted that some stroke victims will assume another stroke is happening when they feel that sensation.

So the good news is Liam's nerves are reconnecting. 

The bad news is I'm not sure I'm asking enough questions of the neurologists or the right questions.  I mean, we've seen three different neurologists now on three different occasions (hospital, second opinion, and ER) and not one of them mentioned this.  Maybe it's something they're actually not that familiar with and something that therapists that work with stroke victims are very familiar with.