Friday, 12 December 2008

Jo’s first unaided stand

I missed the physiotherapy session today as I was waiting at home for the bed elevator. By Jo's account it was very good with Jo managing a stand from the bed unaided, pushing herself up from the bed with her right hand, using the back of the commode to maintain her balance once she was upright.

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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.