<p>Mike, this was Econo's most recent update on FB, from a week ago:</p>
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<p>Ben is having a tough time remembering visual things, including faces, so anyone he has met post-stroke is a stranger to him... He's awfully polite but also passive when people greet him in the hallways at the rehab hospital, so I decided to pull an economist trick and offer him some financial incentive to retrieve visual memories of people.</p>
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<p>"There's money in it for you if you can greet people by name, Ben." "What if I'm wrong and I call them by some random name?" he worried. "That's the risk you take. Try to say 'Hello ________' even before they say hello to you."</p>
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<p>So this morning I nudged him in the arm to greet his occupational therapist. "Hi Ansie," he said. Ansie took me aside and said "Did you know? Yesterday afternoon he said 'Hi Linda!'" (This is a speech therapist he has seen only a few times, not daily.) "Linda almost collapsed with surprise!"</p>
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<p>That was two greetings in less than 24 hours; woot! Ben summarizes his reaction to the whole deal as "cha-ching."</p>
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<p><span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"></span></p>
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<p><span>Haven't run yet, still trying to feel whether my right leg is screwed in right today.</span></p>
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<p>Go Lab!</p>
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<p>Have a great day, everyone.</p>
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<p>Ben is having a tough time remembering visual things, including faces, so anyone he has met post-stroke is a stranger to him... He's awfully polite but also passive when people greet him in the hallways at the rehab hospital, so I decided to pull an economist trick and offer him some financial incentive to retrieve visual memories of people.</p>
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<p>"There's money in it for you if you can greet people by name, Ben." "What if I'm wrong and I call them by some random name?" he worried. "That's the risk you take. Try to say 'Hello ________' even before they say hello to you."</p>
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<p>So this morning I nudged him in the arm to greet his occupational therapist. "Hi Ansie," he said. Ansie took me aside and said "Did you know? Yesterday afternoon he said 'Hi Linda!'" (This is a speech therapist he has seen only a few times, not daily.) "Linda almost collapsed with surprise!"</p>
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<p>That was two greetings in less than 24 hours; woot! Ben summarizes his reaction to the whole deal as "cha-ching."</p>
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<p><span><img alt="biggrin.gif" src="http://files.kickrunners.com/smilies/biggrin.gif"></span></p>
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<p><span>Haven't run yet, still trying to feel whether my right leg is screwed in right today.</span></p>
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<div>Yeah, I know, knock yourselves out with that one.</div>
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<p>Go Lab!</p>
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<p>Have a great day, everyone.</p>
