Sunday, 14 December 2008

Some elevation

Jo's left leg had been a little stiff this weekend so I suggested Jo should really do the exercise the physiotherapist had suggested, putting her right foot behind the left one and lifting it five times every hour. Jo did this a couple of times and the difference was palpable, with her left leg being much more pliant and responsive when performing transfers. During the last rotunda transfer we executed, placing Jo in the wheelchair to go back to CICC, her left leg actually lifted itself high enough to allow the rotunda to be pulled away without dragging the left foot. I appreciate that is only a matter of a few centimetres but it is a big difference.

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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.