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.
This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
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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.
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