Tuesday, 4 November 2008

A target date for coming home

Jo had a good physiotherapy session in her room today, using the rotunda to stand three times. One of those stands was to transfer her to a commode, whereupon she was able to have the bowel that has been eluding her for three days. They have agreed to use the rotunda for transfers unless Jo is tired.

The CICC meeting used set 4-6 weeks as a target date for going home. There was some discussion how mobile Jo would be at that stage and which environment would be best for Jo's continuing recovery.

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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.