Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Bloody minded

Spoke to Jo this morning, she was complaining of pain in her lower back, once again on the left side. I discovered they have been giving her Baclofen for 6 days, possibly to counteract the muscle stiffness. One of the side effects is drowsiness, which would account for all the sleeping.

The cavity was again less evident and throbbing while Jo slept. Later on I observed it had stopped throbbing and was back to “normal.”

When Jo awoke we talked about the situation. She is determined she will walk again and said her bloody minded attitude will see her through.

Posted by Unknown at 10:01

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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.