This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Things are getting better
Jo's head wound is healing very well and the dip on her right temple is less pronounced as the swelling has gone down in the surrounding tissue. Her neglect, which has returned somewhat since the cranioplasty and fall, seems to be abating.
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.
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