Thursday, 21 April 2011

I get angry...

...because if I don't get angry I'll cry and if I start crying I'm afraid I may never stop.

I turn that anger into action of course and thereby avoid wallowing in self-pity and actually get things done although it is hard.

Currently the conservatory, which should have been completed a year ago, is still languishing in a semi-completed state. The builder claimed the panels he had delivered to finish the job were, "the wrong white." I suspect the truth is he has been a victim of the recession the Coalition has pushed us into and that attempting to balance his cashflow us the real reason for all the delays of the past year.

The insurance company providing Jo's rehabilitation is prevaricating yet again. They are trying to say that the complications Jo experienced over Xmas; the pressure sore and her pulmonary embolism, were pre-existing conditions which are preventing her recovery. The truth is their tardiness in approving a further treatment last year is what increased Jo's immobility and so led directly to the pressure sore and the DVT that caused the clots which lodged in her lungs.

Different strokes...

It has been nearly seven years since Jo suffered a "controlled" stroke whilst undergoing brain surgery to clip the blood vessel that had caused a subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2000. Sadly two successive coilings did not occlude the bleed and so Jo had a craniotomy in August 2008. During surgery the surgeon discovered the coiling had penetrated the rear of the aneurysm, occasioning emergency repair procedures. Consequentially they spent one and a half hours longer in surgery than expected, leading to the right half of Jo's brain forgetting it has to look after the left side of her world.