Monday, 3 November 2008

Where’s my arm?

Whilst watching TV Jo repositioned her left leg with her right arm and asked me to keep an eye on the left leg, in case it slipped off the footrest. It certainly seems her awareness of the leg is increasing, albeit slowly. Again, when she was on the bed in the afternoon her left arm was covered by a sheet and there was a moment of mild panic when she didn't know where it was. Once again, the brain seems to be becoming aware of the left arm and is drawing attention to it. The other thing I have noticed in the last two days is that, when Jo is attempting to reposition herself in the bed, she often lifts her right leg up and over the edge of the bed. If nothing else this is shifting her weight to her left leg, which is good.

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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.