We took dad to see a Chinese doctor who specialises in Traditional Chinese Medicine. My brother fetched us and took us all the way there. This is what the doctor said:
- apparently there are two days every month which are considered 'dangerous'. Something to do with a change in the cosmos or climate. Anyhow, they're marked in the Chinese calendar and basically the advice is to take it easy. The doc says dad's stroke happened around one of these days.
- if a man's stroke affects his left side, it takes a lot longer to recover than if it was his right side. The other way round for women. Something to do with the yin and yang
He prescribed many pungent roots and herbs for dad. I have to soak, boil, simmer, strain, and re-boil them once every 2 days. It's a bit musty-smelling but not unbearable.
But now dad is convinced that on the next monthly 'bad days' he's going to die. Talk about twisting the doc's words. We've had to repeatedly try to get this notion out of his head. Not successfully.
It's affected dad's mood. He was very snappy to physio J ("Tell me what to do and I'll do it!!" when she was trying to instruct him on an exercise) and care manager S who asked dad if he wanted to do any cooking. "I don't want to cook anymore!"
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