Monday, 16 March 2009

Shaken and bruised by the fall

Jo is obviously shaken by the fall yesterday and opted to stay in bed al day again. The physiotherapist came at 10:45 and said the bruising to her leg and arm prevented them from doing any physiotherapy today. Additionally the arm was tensed up with shock and more claw-like than it has ever been. Most of all they said Jo's confidence was visibly affected by the fall. I had noticed this earlier in the day. Jo had to stand to get on the commode and she managed it but she was obviously nervous and afraid of falling.

On the positive side she is moving the left leg far more than she ever did before and her leg was not clenched up in neuropathic pain in the morning. I have also noticed her neglect seems to be improving as Jo was able to tell that I was touching both legs at the same time.

Posted by Unknown at 12:29

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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.