This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Monday, 19 January 2009
Occupational therapists hinder recovery
I spoke to the occupational therapist about why she has stopped the care team assisting Jo with breakfast. Her reasons make no sense to me, ranging from "Jo can't get into the kitchen under her own steam." to "It is not helping with Jo's material development." She contradicted the latter when she admitted it was helping with Jo's motivation, which was why she had mandated two days a week for Jo to participate in making lunch. Even the reason she finally settled on, that when Jo's care was transferred to an agency they wouldn't do this, she contradicted by saying we could contract whatever services we require. All this does is underline what a waste of bandwidth occupational therapists are. Jo has taken control, getting the care girls to wheel her into the kitchen and direct them making her breakfast, improving her motivation despite the best efforts of the occupational therapists to scupper her recovery.
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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.
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