Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Perching in the kitchen

Jo got up at 08:30.The physiotherapist came around with the OT and reviewed the mattress variator, deciding to get a bed stick to aid lifting instead. With the aid of two girls from collaborative the physiotherapist got Jo standing in the kitchen with the help of the perching stool and then the collaborative care team performed the left leg exercises and manipulation on the bed.
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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.