Friday, 6 February 2009

The first sign of Jo driving her rehabilitation

Jo got up at 12:30 after sleeping all morning. She was keen to attend her physiotherapy session, calling me 30 minutes before to make sure we got there. She really does seem to have turned a corner, driving her rehabilitation instead of merely tolerating it. I have always thought Jo would not start being proactive about her rehabilitation until she was ready.

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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.