Friday, 26 December 2008

Sheer determination

Her left leg was crooked with pain again, perhaps because she has had a series of long days. Certainly she was tired, sleeping after breakfast, although she roused herself and made her face up for lunch at our neighbours. Every day I see Jo struggling to return to normality. That struggle is tiring and the progress achingly slow but her determination, her "bloodymindedness", will see her through.

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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.