Thursday, 14 August 2008

Still under sedation

More improvement today, Jo is moving spontaneously and opening her eyes when I talk to her. She is still showing the effects of sedation though and her pupils are barely visible. They have taken her off the last sedative and there are only nutrient and sodium level feeds. She is still on the respirator. They tried twice to take her off it but she is only breathing 5 times a minute instead of 12. She is moving her right arm and leg spontaneously and chomping on her oxygen tube. I thought I detected some slight movement in her left leg a couple of 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.