Wednesday, 5 November 2008

Increasing pain

The last week has seen the reappearance of the nerve pain as the muscles in her leg and arm become active again. Jo is also more tired and experiencing moments of mild mental tiredness, perhaps a sign that new functionality is returning. Certainly the leg appears to be moving more and demanding attention and now, with regular transfers using the rotunda, which exercises the muscles in the leg and to some extent the arm, there are definitely an increased amount of muscle signals being sent to the brain.

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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.