This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Tuesday, 2 September 2008
Continuing improvement
Jo’s speech continues to improve and her right eye is nearly entirely open. Her left leg and arm continue to be unresponsive, a situation not helped by the paucity of physiotherapy, 30 minutes a day, when Jo doesn't refuse it out of tiredness.
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.
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