Saturday, 11 April 2009

One month after the cranioplasty

Jo continues to be able to lift her left foot when sitting, something she couldn't do before the cranioplasty. She is now at the stage the neurosurgeon said he thought she should be 3-4 months after the stroke; able to lift her left foot against gravity and reasonably able to transfer herself in and out of bed. It is reasonable to assume the delay has been due to the effects of the craniectomy, the syndrome of the trephined.

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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.