Tuesday, 13 January 2009

Another CLQT test

Jo got up at 09:30, assisted by the collaborative care team. The Occupational Therapist, came and administered a CLQT test. It will be interesting to compare the results with the test Jo completed in the neurological ward, where she scored 15/20. Certainly she seemed to do well and got the only one where she significantly failed last time, the clock test, was 100% right this time. Last time Jo got all the numbers in the right place but drew a straight line between 10 and 2 when asked to place the hands at ten to two. This time she drew the two hands correctly.

I have already noted that, when standing using the rotunda, Jo draws her left arm up, something the physiotherapist thought might be muscles seizing up but I disagree. Today I have twice observed Jo lift the left foot to allow the rotunda to be pulled away. We are talking about the difference between the foot being dead weight and the minimum lifting effort against gravity but it is there.
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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.