Wednesday, 11 March 2009

A successful operation

Jo's cranioplasty was successful although later than the scheduled time of 13:30 as her heart rate was high at 156. They treated this with Tamazepam and tested her blood for electrolytes and performed an ECG to ensure there were no irregularities in her heart rhythm. She finally went to theatre at 18:00, returning from recovery at 20:30.

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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.