Wednesday, 25 February 2009

Why is it so hard to admit they were wrong?

Jo got up at 08:30 as she had an appointment with the hairdresser at CICC at 11:00. The technician came from Social Services and fitted a bed stick and raised the bed four inches.

We also had an appointment with the consultant physiotherapist at 16:15. He was very pleased and impressed by her progress and made his excuse, again, for giving such a negative diagnosis last year; that not much has been written about stroke. Considering he is supposed to be the expert I find this disingenuous at best but I have become used to the medical profession's inability to admit to mistakes.
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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.