Saturday, 14 March 2009

Continuing improvement

Jo's stands were better today and she was able to push her leg back with a lot more ease when standing. She is also able to sit herself up in the chair, something I have never seen her do before. The cranioplasty is giving her some pain though and she went to bed early.

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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.