Sunday, 4 January 2009

Answering the key question.

During stands Jo moves her left leg back if she stands up straight and does not look down, demonstrating that this is all about the subconscious rather than the conscious mind and answering Masud Husain's key question, "...whether conscious intentions are an immediate consequence of preparation for action, or a retrospective mental justification to explain actions we have just made." Jo has also been holding the left arm up rather than just letting it hang when standing up which the physiotherapist thought may be developing muscle tone.
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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.