Friday, 26 September 2008

The pain continues

Jo looked more rested today. She didn't want to get in the chair because of pain in the knee, which she did agree was muscle pain and promised to get in it tomorrow. They have moved the evening Gabapentin to 22:00, which is more balanced than 18:00.

She was suffering nerve pain in her hand, shoulder, knee and foot by the evening. Her left leg was drawing up with the pain, which proves it is neuropathic and I hope a sign that things are waking up.

Posted by Unknown at 16:21

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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.