Wednesday, 4 March 2009

Impatience leads to a tumble

Jo went to the hairdressers at CICC today. On our return she was rather impatient about getting out of the car, putting her left leg out while I was still getting the wheelchair out of the boot. As a consequence she tipped on the cucumber board and tipped herself out of the car, landing on the ground. I managed to right her by standing behind and helping her up by the armpits. Although it was a frightening experience it does demonstrate how far Jo has progressed as I would not have been able to get her in a standing position when she first came home, the left side being far too weak.

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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.