Saturday, 22 November 2008

Vice-like pain

Jo came home for a day visit today, having got up at 08:30. We managed to get her on the commode using the rotunda. At 14:30 we transferred her to the bed I had made up downstairs for a siesta. We did one transfer from the wheelchair to the commode and two transfers from the bed to the commode so eight stands. At 18:00 Jo got back in the chair and we had some tea before returning to CICC at 20:00, at which time Jo got into bed. During the transfers Jo's left foot was trying to make helpful movements but the movement was too small to have any effect. Still, it is returning and getting stronger.

We forgot to get Jo's Gabapentin to take home for lunchtime and by 20:00 Jo had vice-like pain in her foot and knee, indicating that the neuropathic pain is still there and that she needs to take it every eight hours.

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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.