Friday, 22 August 2008

A small scare

Jo was very tired this morning and speech was hard. She has been working on the physiotherapy stroking her left arm to stimulate it so maybe she has worn herself out. She is also probably more than a little despondent.

There was a small scare when her temperature was elevated, with a fear of infection in the lungs due to not swallowing properly but all blood and urine tests came back negative and her temperature was back to normal by the evening.

She slept for a couple of hours and I observed her drawing her left leg up six times.

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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.