Friday, 27 March 2009

Swings and roundabouts

Jo had a good session with the collaborative care girls, transferring herself from bed to commode three times. Her left foot is even more swollen than yesterday though, which is confusing. On the one hand she seems to be making progress, on the other hand various symptoms which had long disappeared, or abated post-cranioplasty, have returned. Hopefully it is just the brain sorting things out and not after-effects of the fall.

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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.