Monday, 1 September 2008

Don’t use the “r” word!

Jo continues to improve, her speech is almost normal and you only notice a droop on the left side of her face when she smiles. I have located a local neurological specialist, who works out of the local NHS and private General Neurophysiology hospitals and made contact with the Healthcare Insurance Company, who say they will pay for the physiotherapy up until the point at which Jo is mobile, thereafter it is rehabilitation, for which they will not pay.

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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.