Friday, 9 January 2009

Do we need a wet room?

Jo got up at 09:00 and was visited by the physiotherapist and the occupational therapist as well as the collaborative care team. They gave her a good workout, with four transfers and work on the bed on her leg. The physiotherapist got Jo to demonstrate her ability to raise her leg at the knee when lying prone.

The OTs weren't happy with the bath lift and put us down for a wet room evaluation. This and the stair lift are means tested so we shall see what the cost is and how much help we get. I intend to do a dry run with the bath lift once I have the spacers as I'm sure we can manage it.

All of this activity must have tired Jo as she slept all day, waking long enough to eat lunch, tea and use the commode a couple of times.
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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.