Friday, 13 February 2009

We are both very worn down

Jo stayed in bed until 12:30 as she was very tired, not getting much sleep despite the exhaustion brought on by yesterdays disaster. The cold weather is not helping.

She had a desperate need to do a bowel movement at 10:00, just as I as about to go on a call. Once again I noticed that she was able to do much more getting herself to a sitting position. When we went to physiotherapy at 15:00 the physiotherapist asked if we could get a divan base to give Jo more purchase on the bed, thus hopefully enabling her to become more independent. I ordered one to be delivered straight away.

Jo had a good physiotherapy session by all accounts and seems to be progressing. It is very slow and beginning to wear us both down though.

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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.