Monday, 5 January 2009

Using the pedal machine

The physiotherapist came today and observed Jo using the pedal machine, which she thought was good although she exposed her negative proclivities when she said the left leg wasn't doing anything. As this was without feeling the muscles in that leg I fail to see how she can say that or what value there is in reinforcing negative messages. Jo and I are not unaware of how little the left leg is actually doing but we also know the most effective therapy is to move the affected limb in the confessional space and any flickers of muscle movement are to be encouraged.
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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.