Friday, 17 October 2008

Turning to the left

Jo was in pain again today. When I went to the nurse to get her some paracetamol I discovered that she had refused them at lunchtime today and yesterday, which means that it is muscle pain. This may be due to the lack of physiotherapy because the physiotherapist is ill.

Although the TV is on her right hand side, Jo was turning her head to the left to look at me when speaking to me, something she wouldn't have done last week.

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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.