Friday, 19 September 2008

Shuffling along

Jo had another good physiotherapy session today, using her left buttock to shuffle in and out of the wheelchair using a plank. The goal is to stop using the hoist by end of next week. Another goal is to stand aided by only one person by end of next week. The neurological consultant was very pleased with her progress.

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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.