Wednesday, 18 March 2009

Complete loss of trust in the carers

Jo is still feeling very fragile, the fall has obviously had a deleterious effect on her confidence and she requires constant reassurance and is very afraid of falling whenever she does attempt a stand. She is better when I am there but very obviously has no confidence in the carers at all, which is not surprising.

The district nurse came and removed the staples this morning. The wound seems to be healing nicely but there is a lot of bruising and damage caused by the fall. The leg wounds were redressed as an alginate dressing had been applied, which has made Jo come out in a rash as she is allergic to seaweed.

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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.