Friday, 29 August 2008

First signs of neglect

Jo looks better today although still tired. The physiotherapists got Jo standing in a machine which helped her. They helped her support her head in her hands. She couldn't feel her face with her left hand when both hands were supporting her head, which I learned later is a sign of "neglect".

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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.