Saturday, 20 September 2008

Strong pain

Jo had strong pain in her left arm and leg and didn't want to be put into the chair today. I only saw her briefly in the morning as I had a meeting in London. She seemed OK but speech as slightly slurred with some drooping on the left side of her face. She phoned me that night at 23:00, just as I was leaving London, and her speech sounded much improved.

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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.