Monday, 20 October 2008

Nerves initiating movement

I arrived at 15:00 to find Jo enjoying a siesta again. The left foot was leaning to the right again, is this a sleep mode thing? Several times she drew up her left leg, straightening the ankle as she did so. I know the physiotherapists describe this almost disparagingly as a reflexive action, but it does mean the potential for movement is there and surely reacting to nerve pain is nerves initiating movement, which is how we all work? It just needs the brain to make the final, neural connection.

When Jo awoke I massaged her leg, which she enjoyed and said it felt “normal”, not “plastic” as it had done a week ago. When I was putting Jo's slippers on she thought her toes were wiggling. Unfortunately I couldn't see as her toes were in her slippers.

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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.