Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Healing begins

Jo got in the chair at 8:30 and stayed till after lunch, so four hours in the chair. She seems to be going through a healing phase, enjoying a siesta yesterday and today. She had her hair done today, with a parting which brings her hair down over her right forehead, thus hiding the indentation from the missing bone flap.

The left leg seems to me to be holding its own weight a little and moving more in concert with the rest of her body. Jo coughed twice and her left leg drew up at the knee. Jo was aware of the movement even though she hadn't initiated it.

Autumn leaves are falling.

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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.