Sunday, 10 August 2008

The worst phone call I have ever received.

I visited the hospital again this morning and another scan showed that the blood flow was further reduced. There was no sign of a stroke at this stage and I was advised a further operation was necessary to put a bypass in place to circumvent the occluded blood vessel.

They began preparing Jo for surgery at 14:00

At 21:30 the neurosurgeon phoned me to say that as they began to implement the bypass Jo's brain began to swell. He was concerned this was life threatening and doubted she would last the night.

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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.