Thursday, 26 February 2009

Jo is able to sit up and stand from the bed

The physiotherapist came round and got Jo to use the bed stick to sit up, which she was able to do with a little effort moving her affected leg. Jo was also able to stand from the bed. This is really good progress and everyone was pleased, including Jo herself.
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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.