Monday, 27 October 2008

Still suffering the after effects of Baclofen

Jo was a little flat when I arrived at 15:00 and her speech was not the clearest but it had all improved quite a bit by 17:00 and she was using her buttocks, left and right, much better to transfer using the sliding board onto the chair for tea. Not as good as before the bloody Baclofen but a lot better than yesterday.

I massaged her foot and there was definitely some response to pressure there, very slight and it is only early stages but it is there.

Sitting in the chair that night Jo's left leg was far more central and did not push against me when I pushed it to the left. At one stage Jo began pulling the trouser leg on her left leg upward. When I asked her what she was doing she said she said she was trying to get her left foot in the right position as it was leaning over. Obviously awareness is returning for her to be aware of that. She tired quickly though, and her posture became more askew so retired to bed at 20:00.

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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.