Saturday, 27 December 2008

An interesting neglect incident

Jo had an interesting neglect moment today. I had moved a vase of yellow roses from the right of the room to the left, replacing them with a posey of white roses. Jo asked where the yellow roses were. When I said they were on her left she turned and looked at them, a scenario I have become familiar with. A moment later Jo referred to them as yellow tulips, demonstrating that she had retained them in her mental image of the room, albeit imperfectly.

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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.