Wednesday, 25 March 2009

Things are getting worse

Jo's physiotherapy session was not totally successful today. She is still not very confident standing. I am still fearful that the fall has had a deleterious effect neurologically as we have seen the return of neglect since then, accompanied by increasing stiffness and heaviness in the left arm and leg. The swelling I had noted going down post-operation has returned as well.

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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.