Wednesday, 20 August 2008

Early days

Jo was a little less bright today although still lucid and there are small signs of recovery. The scar, which runs from th middle of her forehead to just below th right ear, is healing well and the right eye, which has become closed with the bruising of the nerves around the eye, is beginning to reopen.

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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.