Thursday, 25 December 2008

Merry Xmas

Jo awoke with cramp-like pain in her left leg. She appeared to have moved around a lot during the night, to the right of the bed, and her left leg keeps putting itself in a crooked position. I have given her the morning dose of Gabapentin and Paracetamol. We had a very good Xmas day, with Jo and I cooking lunch together. Our neighbours called over during this and observed Jo's left leg moving. It has been alternately painful and itching today, hopefully a sign that something is waking up. Once she raised her left leg off the footstool and lowered the foot to the floor, holding it against gravity rather than just letting it fall

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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.