Saturday, 13 September 2008

Dealing with neuropathic pain

Arrived at 14:30 to see Jo sitting up in her chair, having her hair brushed. Although it hasn't been washed yet it looks a lot better. I wheeled Jo outside where she enjoyed the sun on her face and spent some time trying to entice the hospital cat to appear. She was still able to balance herself, only tiring after two half hour sessions, making a total of one and half hours in the chair.

On our tour we had noticed a free side room in the neurological physiotherapy ward. Upon our return we asked the acute ward sister about this. She went and enquired and lo and behold, Jo was moved there after tea!

The consultant has taken her off the Amiodarone and back on Atenolol, Bendroflumethiazide and Aspirin, plus Gabapentin for the nerve pain. The Gabapentin seems to be causing some anxiety and confusion or short-term memory loss.

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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.