Monday, 2 March 2009

The first signs of movement in Jo’s arm

Jo had an interesting physiotherapy session today. The physiotherapist got her to move her arm, first from the shoulder, which I didn't know Jo could do, and then pushing forward against the physiotherapist and finally pulling back. The latter two Jo was really pleased about.

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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.