This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Tuesday, 16 December 2008
Conscious versus unconscious action
There is definitely more moment in the left leg and it seems to be that, if Jo doesn't think about it, everything flows quite smoothly. Once you draw her attention to the fact of any movement, everything becomes more difficult.
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.
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