Wednesday, 1 October 2008

Health Insurance ceases

That consultant neurologist has produced a report for the health insurers calling Jo’s neurological physiotherapy rehabilitation, thus causing them to cease funding. This is why their is a paucity of private physiotherapy in this county. All physiotherapists call what they do rehabilitation and the health insurance companies won’t pay for rehabilitation as, in their view, rehabilitation is never-ending. When you explain this to NHS-funded physiotherapists you just get a blank look. As their funding is not dependant on private health insurance they have no incentive to address this disparity.

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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.