Last hydrotherapy session this year

Jo continues to make slow but steady progress. Let us hope next year sees a step up in confidence and progress.

Treading water

Jo is continuing to progress with the hydrotherapy, treading water with increasing confidence, only marred by the lack of physiotherapy to back this up and the bouts of neuropathic pain, which still continue.

A bit better

Jo did not suffer so much neuropathic pain today and so had a good hydrotherapy session. Although progress is slow you can see the strength building in the left leg.

Progressing sideways

For the physiotherapy session today the physiotherapists got Jo to stand at the kitchen bench and walk sideways. They said we should do this as often as possible from now until January as they cannot visit again until then as this is a busy time for them, settling people in at home after a stay in hospital.

I appreciate their dilemma but Jo saw it as if she was being abandoned. Once again I find myself wishing for enough funding to pay for private physiotherapy. Once a week is not enough as Jo's confidence has been shattered by the fall earlier this year and it takes a whole session js to get her confidence back. Then, a week later, that confidence has dissipated and so we start al over again, making progress painfully slow.

Struggling with this new bout of neuropathic pain

Jo's hydrotherapy session was good today but with less feeling of progress than last week as Jo struggles with the fresh waves of neuropathic pain, the nerves waking up.

A really good work out

Jo had a really good work out in the water today. Performing the scissor movement the left leg was stronger than ever and the hydrotherapist got her to do 40 of these. Then she moved on to pedalling and, once again, the left leg was much stronger and Jo performed 40 of these. Finally with the squat to stand Jo performed better than last week and did 40 of these. She was tired afterward of course but there was a real sense of achievement and progress.

That evening, putting Jo to bed saw a vicious return of neuropathic pain in the left knee. Perhaps as a result of the exercise or just simply a sign of a new awakening?