Wednesday, 26 November 2008

We’re getting there

Jo was had a hospital visit today. The doctor agreed that the nerve pain was probably due to the returning movement in Jo's left leg, although she did observe that tolerance did develop to the Gabapentin over time. She doubled the dosage to 600 mg and prescribed 20 mg of Omeprazole to protect her stomach from the aspirin.

Jo's left hand is much looser and less prone to form a claw. Hopefully, the new pain control regime will see the progress we saw in her left leg last week continue. My parting comment to Jo was, "We're getting there."

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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.