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What's (one of) the favorite surgeries you've ever done (that you can publicly talk about)?

In had the same question, and as someone who's never done any drugs, the only ones I'm familiar with are the ones you can OD on where they stop you from breathing. Morphine, heroine, fentanyl - the painkiller family. Are those the "usual culprits" you mean?

Thank you thank you thank you !! For years I've been trying to look up 'that funny older tennis guy from some random non tennis country' I once saw playing doubles indoors against McEnroe. It is Mansour Bahrami. I'm going to have so much YouTube to watch now :).

I also think I remember seeing a ballboy get to play on the BBC. Could have been you. Congrats!

With aphasia, do you think what you want to say at the same speed as before, or is it hard to think of the right words too? Is the issue translating thoughts into speech, or is it "only" the speech part that goes a bit crappy?

Did you know any foreign languages before the stroke? Are all languages you knew equally affected? If you learn a new language now, is that stored in a non-affected area of the brain, and therefore easier? Or does your brain try to store it in an affected area?

How about singing? Is that easier than speech? (I read somewhere that that's not located in Broca/Wernicke area..?)

Thank you. Very interesting. And what a super frustrating condition - I'm sorry it happened to you. I'm happy you survived and that all the hard work now allows you to at least communicate again!