Saturday, 20 December 2008

Getting in and out of the car

Jo got up at 08:30. I don't know who got her up but they did an appalling job, her trousers and knickers were all twisted and halfway down her bum and the arms on the wheelchair were on the wrong sides. The former made transfer in and out of the car more difficult and the latter made folding the wheelchair nigh on impossible. Despite the difficulties with her attire the transfers were not too bad and both getting in and alighting, Jo's left leg made definite moves to position itself when getting into and out of the car, lifting against gravity both times. There wasn't enough power there to lift it far enough and Jo professed to be unaware of the effort but the willing was certainly there.

Posted by Unknown at 08:03

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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.