Monday, 15 September 2008

Deciding not to die

Jo seemed a little distracted today, which I attributed to the Gabapentin but was probably because the realisation of what she has been through is just beginning to sink home. She soon brightened up though.

Another neglect incident occurred where there was a news paper to her left and when I said to look at the paper she said, “what paper?” So I rustled the paper and said here it is. Only then did she say she could see it.

She was also brighter in the evening. She told me she remembers deciding she didn't want to die during the time in Cambridge, which is probably what was weighing on her mind this morning.

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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.