Thursday, 16 October 2008

Standing on her own

Jo stood on her own to do her washing and dressing today, another milestone and another contrast to the hospital where they had set a prissy goal of “standing with the aid of one person within a fortnight.” This was standing on her own, no person assisting. The pain has returned but seems less intense. Certainly it wasn't enough to keep her from getting in the chair for tea.

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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.