Sunday, 11 January 2009

Jo is enjoying preparing her own breakfast

The collaborative care team got Jo up at 08:30. They helped her prepare her breakfast. She is enjoying this and doing anything she can to prevent her feeling dependent, which is half the battle. Jo continues to be very drowsy although she slept less than yesterday which, in its turn, was less than Friday. When she wakes from each episode of torpor she claims unawareness of having been asleep, which is reminiscent of the way she drifted between dreams and reality in 2000.
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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.