Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Small steps

Jo did fifteen minutes on the pedal machine before physiotherapy. The pedal machine was very good, encouraging movement in the left leg. As the physiotherapist had said, a session with the machine prior to physiotherapy fed positively into the latter, with Jo performing several good stands, pushing the left leg back and transferring weight on to it with increasing ease. Jo managed four steps, still with assistance but with increasing confidence.

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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.