Thursday, 29 January 2009

I wish Jo would be more proactive

Jo got up at 08:30 and went to bed at 21:30, assisted by the care team. She had an exercise session today, with the collaborative care team. They got her to push against them and move her leg from left to right and vice versa, which isn't in the exercises but I'm glad they did. I still don't understand why Jo doesn't do these movements on her own.

The thought has also occurred to me that Jo may be able to move her left arm when prone, as the pressure on the bone flap is less and this explains why she is able to move her left leg when prone. I asked her to do this when in bed, first her leg, for which she proffered the lame excuse that the bedclothes were on it and so didn't even try, then her arm, which she didn't even try. Maybe it is just my own frustration but I feel she really needs to wake up, stop feeling sorry for herself and take a more active role in her rehabilitation.
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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.