Thursday, 2 April 2009

Encouraging signs of movement in Jo’s hand

We had an interesting physiotherapy session today at CICC. The whole hour was spent with the physiotherapist supporting Jo's left arm and Jo moving it backward and forward. I did not know Jo could do this and I suspect Jo did not either. It does need support for her to be able to do this but it is there. The physiotherapist also manipulated the hand, which is looser when Jo's arm is supported and Jo managed to “hold on” to a book spine when her hand was placed on it.

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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.