This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Saturday, 28 February 2009
Jo s definitely getting better at standing
Jo had another good day. I supervised while she did four stands from the bed and she also stood to get on the commode to be wheeled in to the toilet for a bowel movement and stood to transfer from the commode to the bed at 23:00.
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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