Sunday, 9 November 2008

Bitter-sweet visit home

Jo was in the chair at 09:00 for breakfast. We went home at 14:00 for an hour. It was bitter-sweet, with the cats having to be coaxed into recognising her and Jo feeling like a visitor in her own home initially. It seemed to give her the left she needed though and hopefully the incentive to build on the controlled movement in her left leg we saw on Thursday. I don't think Jo realises just how important that is.

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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.