Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Time to replace the brain flap

I phoned the neurosurgeon, who seemed pleased when I told him Jo had some controlled movement in her left leg, saying their scans showed no brain damage and so they were confident Jo would regain the use of the left leg. He agreed it was time to replace the brain flap and confirmed that headaches are often caused by the lack of a brain flap. There also seems to be some consensus that the visual appearance has a negative psychological effect.
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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.