Tuesday, 2 December 2008

Another good physiotherapy session

Jo had a very good physiotherapy session today, achieving eight steps and amazing us all when she stood by herself twice. The bizarre thing is she keeps doing things like this and seems unaware of it herself. To make the steps they put her in a walking frame and that did seem to give Jo the confidence she needed. She also moved her leg backwards several times to straighten it, the most movement I have seen her do under her control as the steps are just shuffles really.

We agreed on Thursday we will try a transfer in and out of the car. That will bring us one step closer to Jo coming home, where I am beginning to think she will make the fastest progress as being in hospital or a rehabilitation centre seems to form a psychological block in her mind.

We also discussed an electric tilting device to aid Jo in sitting up and transferring to a commode. I hope they can get this soon.

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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.