Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Voluntary movement of the left leg

In the evening, after I had massaged the foot, which stimulated small movements in the toes, Jo drew her left leg up herself, twice. After that she couldn't do it any more and said it was like this, she could move it and then it would go inactive again. I think this is “normal” and to be expected. She is definitely making progress.

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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.