Monday, 29 September 2008

The pain appears to be under control

Jo was in a better mood today and only required token persuasion to get in her chair. Once there she spent over 4 hours in it. The consultant physiotherapist has upped the Gabapentin to three times a day, 09:00, 14:00 and 22:00. This appears to be the right decision as Jo has been much more positive now the pain is under control.

Posted by Unknown at 16:29

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

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.