Thursday, 12 March 2009

Immediate signs of improvement in neglect

Jo is making a good recovery from the operation but opted to stay in hospital for another 24 hours to build up her strength a little more as the operation being later had shortened her available recovery time.

Several people have commented on the fact that her mouth is drooping less on the left hand side. I have also observed that the swelling in her left arm and leg appears to have lessened significantly. The tactile neglect on the left side also seems to have diminished. Jo also has short term memory loss, perhaps this confusion is caused by other brain functions coming back?

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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.