Monday, 13 April 2009

Lifting her foot into the car

Jo got over the rubber lip of the sill getting into the car today but encountered the corner of the door frame, which is curved and the curve blocked her ingress. To navigate this she needs to pull her leg back, something that will just require a little more effort. She is getting very good at lifting the leg but has more difficulty moving it from side to side. We did achieve this once before, when the physiotherapist had Jo moving her left foot up and over. Then Jo seemed to achieve it by maintenance of motion. Now she needs to do it slowly and more deliberately.

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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.