This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Thursday, 28 August 2008
Fatigue sets in
Just saw Jo briefly in the morning as I had to go to Gatwick. Jo was tired and I wasn't surprised, although disappointed, to find she had refused physiotherapy, when I rang her in the evening.
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.
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