Saturday, 18 October 2008

An interesting neglect incident

Jo is still suffering this new bout of muscle pain and is tired from lack of sleep, a situation that has hopefully been addressed by moving two old ladies in the centre who cry out all night.

Jo's left leg appears to me to be holding itself in position a little more. Jo and I both observed her left leg draw itself up. Jo said she could feel pain when she did so, which is different to withdrawing it in response to pain. Her left leg is leaning to the right when sitting in the chair, whereas previously it was neutral, just flopping. Could this be the beginning but still left dominant?

They have promised to start the flit flow on her catheter tomorrow.

An interesting neglect incident. The catering assistant had set a place opposite Jo. She pointed out to him that he had omitted the knife, on her left, and then quickly corrected herself as she could now see the knife.

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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.