Sunday, 26 October 2008

A magpie comes to call

Jo looks much better today, sitting up straight in the chair and reading a book. Her left leg is still pushing over to the right. It is definitely pushing, not flopping.

I came back at 14:00 and Jo was on the bed and pretty soon she was asleep, whether from that bloody drug or general fatigue I just don't know.

During the afternoon a magpie came and landed on Jo's window sill, looking in the window directly at Jo. I woke Jo just in time to see the magpie fly to the tree opposite the window and thence to fly away.

Although Jo is sitting up fairly straight she is tired, which one can only put down to the bloody Baclofen.

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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.