Monday, 11 August 2008

Jo is in the neurological critical care unit

A visit to the hospital this morning saw Jo still under sedation but with the swelling reduced. The intern explained that the bypass had not been successful, the blood vessel collapsing and hence that part of the brain would almost certainly have suffered a stroke.

Her heart rate is cause for some concern, being between 125 and 156, and they were keeping her blood pressure up with drugs as that had become dangerously low. She is still sedated and there is little or no response from her.

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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.