Sunday, 30 November 2008

Standing with the rotunda

Jo was less tired today and managed several stands using the rotunda from her armchair in the front room, which is quite low. She resists placing the left hand on the rotunda, but it does help her balance and I have observed, when it is on the frame, there are flickers of movement as the arm tries to do its bit.

In the same vein, when I placed the table with her lunch in front of her, requiring that she pull her legs back, she pulled the left leg back instinctively.

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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.