Wednesday, 24 September 2008

Finally they agree to restart the Gabapentin!

Jo was in too much pain for physiotherapy today. She tried sitting in the chair but even that was too painful and she asked to be put back after half an hour. We got the ward doctor to review her medication and he put her back on Gabapentin. I arrived at 6:30 in the evening and she had a tablet at 18:00. By 19:30 she was fast asleep.

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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.