Sunday, 22 March 2009

Things are getting worse, not better

Jo got up at lunchtime today and we went to Waitrose for lunch and some shopping. Her stands are very wobbly and there is a return of hemispatial neglect, with Jo failing to see her mobile phone just to the left of centre. She said it was going in and out of her field of vision. In Waitrose she was leaning to the right and her head was constantly turned to the right. She said she was aware she was doing this, which is new, but she hasn't done this for some time.

Getting in Jo raised her left leg the highest she has ever done but cried out in pain. Similarly, when sitting in her chair at home later, she drew her left leg back, something she hasn't done before but once again crying out in pain.

Posted by Unknown at 12:35

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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.