Saturday, 28 March 2009

Positive signs

Jo looks better today, her smile is straighter and she is sitting straighter. She had a good night's sleep, possibly aided by the herbal pillow I bought her. Certainly she is suffering less neuropathic pain as evidenced by the fact that she did not take her Gabapentin last night again and her left leg was not in pain in the morning, a trend that has remained constant since the cranioplasty. She also went all day without taking any Paracetamol, another increasing trend since the cranioplasty.

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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.