Monday, 27 April 2009

The physiotherapist gets it wrong

The physiotherapists arrived today to change the transfer instructions for the carers. Unfortunately they seemed to have it all about-face, trying to change the morning transfer from rotunda to stand-and-swivel. Aside from the fact that the bedtime transfer from commode to bed is easier than vice versa, Jo is not a morning person and their attempted stands were not the best, requiring three people to effect a stand and swivel. I could have predicted this and am bemused by their approach. I think the collaborative care physiotherapist has done some good work but hope things shift up a gear once Jo's rehabilitation changes over to the hospital team.

Posted by Unknown at 08:33

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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.