Sunday, 28 September 2008

Pain or depression?

Jo seemed a little down today but agreed to get in the chair after a little persuasion. She still complained of pain in her foot but it seemed better, with no reflexive withdrawal from stimuli. One of the nurses thinks Jo may need the antidepressants to get her through the next month.

She sat in the chair from 14:00 to 17:00, so another good three hours. We sat in the sun and went to the restaurant for ice creams and cakes, all of which gave her spirits a much needed boost. Her left arm was itching, which is new.

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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.