Friday, 24 October 2008

Tickling Jo’s toes

Jo was still extremely sleepy, even though they have finally stopped the Baclofen. She seems to be experiencing the lower back pain of a few days back. As the Baclofen works by suppressing signals from the central nervous system, we shall have to wait until the bloody stuff wears off to see what is causing it.

While Jo slept I tried gently tickling her left foot, she curled her toes and pulled the foot away, not sharply, as if in pain, but just as someone would do if you tickled their foot.

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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.