Saturday, 29 November 2008

Using the rotunda

Jo came home for another long stay today. She is tired today as a result of four night-time urinations, one of which required a change of linen. The consequence of this was that her left leg was once again floppy, not making the effort to position itself correctly during rotunda transfers. The left side of her mouth was also drooping more than yesterday. No more pots of tea after 16:00!

Jo got up at 19:00 and we had some tea, returning to CICC at 20:30. At 21:00, when we did a simple transfer on to the bed, her left foot was moving in concert again. Obviously the dynamics of muscle movement in shuffling are better developed. They have just started using the rotunda for all transfers so we should start to see some improvement from now on.

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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.