Tuesday, 21 April 2009

The carers cause Jo pain and misery

I returned from CH at 21:00. Jo had been left from lunchtime until then as the carers who came for her teatime visit had merely rang the doorbell, going away when there was no answer. I cannot believe they did this as they know Jo cannot get to the door herself and were told I was out of town on business. Jo had tried to hitch her dress up and urinate but the dress was in the pot and consequently was very wet, capillary action made the base of the dress wet, which meant Jo's back was aching from sitting for three hours or more in her own urine.

Posted by Unknown at 08:27

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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.