Saturday, 6 December 2008

A home visit

I picked Jo up at 11:00 for her day at home. We managed the transfer into the car reasonably well on our own. Transferring out back into the chair didn't go quite as smoothly, maybe we should use the sliding board for added security.

Once she was home Jo played solitaire on the computer for several hours. She had a little trouble inputting the password as two letters to the left of the keyboard; V and C took a little pointing out.

The power and movement in Jo's left leg definitely comes and goes. In the morning we transferred Jo onto the bed to change her leggings. Her left leg felt light as I lifted it off the footrest, a sure sign the muscles were working with me. During the transfer the foot not only moved with her body, it could also be observed putting pressure downwards.

After we had changed the leggings the left leg was not as active when getting back into the chair and felt heavy when placing her foot back on the footrest.

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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.