Tuesday, 6 January 2009

Nearly there

Jo's left leg was crooked up again this morning but she slept through whatever pain there was. The left leg was moving sideways, which is not a pain response, maybe something is waking up? Certainly when the collaborative care team arrived at 08:45 Jo did not seem to be in great pain.

Jo was in much better spirits today and far less sleepy. She prepared her own breakfast and lunch for the two of us, which broke her out of the dependent mindset she has been slipping into and restored some sense of self-worth. I put Jo to bed at 22:00, the collaborative care team having arrived at 20:45, a time Jo deemed to early. I am going to have to insist Jo allows the girls to put her to bed as I am too tired later.

More importantly, when Jo was ready to go to bed, with her seated on the commode alongside the bed, I came back in the room with the rotunda to find Jo half standing. The arm wasn't out of the commode so she couldn't transfer across to the bed but she was nearly 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.