Friday, 28 November 2008

Home visit with the occupational therapist

Jo came home with the occupational therapist to assess how things were. She did a transfer from the chair to the bed and managed quite well. As they discovered, Jo needed to use the rotunda to do the reverse though, making night-time urinations a problem.

They did observe the same apparent movement of the left leg in concert with the body during transfers.

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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.