Friday, 10 April 2009

First movement of the foot sideways

Jo is getting even better at lifting her foot on to the footplate and placing it in position. She also managed to right the foot when sitting in her chair. In the afternoon she became tired from the excitement of purchasing a load of clothing and was unable to place her foot down on the footplate. Her hemispatial neglect also manifested itself when she had trouble seeing a lift and signage in front and to the left.

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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.