Saturday, 27 September 2008

Flagging spirits

Jo was a little flat when I arrived this afternoon but agreed to get in the chair. It was a lovely sunny day which served to revive her understandably flagging spirits. We discussed her taking antidepressants to help her with her physiotherapy. The doctors think it will help with motivation and I also pointed out to her that they can help her to ignore the pain but she is still not keen.

She sat in the chair until 18:00, so a good 3 hours.

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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.