Sunday, 1 February 2009

Drowsiness, a symptom of sinking skin flap syndrome

Jo slept a lot today. Drowsiness is one of the symptoms of "sinking skin flap syndrome" but hopefully is also helping the burn on her leg to heal. Certainly it seems to be in its last healing stage. Jo is also beginning to draw her left leg backward unaided when lying down.

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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.