Friday, 17 April 2009

Collaborative care is about to end

Jo had a good session with the collaborative care girls today, performing six stands from the bed. I am concerned that this seems about to end with the handover of rehabilitation from the Collaborative Care team to the hospital team, just when the promised beneficial effects of the cranioplasty seem to be kicking in.

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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.