Thursday, 30 October 2008

Pushing herself up on the left arm

Jo had a very good physiotherapy session today. The physiotherapist got Jo to push herself up using her left arm. I was amazed as I didn't think this was possible at this stage and that they would concentrate on the leg first. The physiotherapist also got Jo crossing her right leg over the left, something Jo struggled with at first but could do with ease by the end.

The physiotherapist also agreed with my theory of the arm and leg drawing attention to themselves, saying the muscles were all there and working and time would see Jo progressing to controlling them fully.

They finally removed the damned catheter today. Jo actually used the toilet downstairs, using the rotunda to get on it

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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.