Thursday, 6 November 2008

A good physiotherapy session

Jo had a very good physiotherapy session today, despite feeling tired and despondent. With her lying on her back and her left leg raised up at the knee the physiotherapist asked Jo to hold the leg in a central position, which she achieved after some concentration. Then the physiotherapist asked Jo to move her leg to the right. Once again Jo was able to after a bout of concentration. This was repeated three times, each time a little easier.

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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.