Friday, 3 April 2009

Return of neuropathic pain post-fall

Later yesterday we saw a return of neuropathic pain to the left leg, in the thigh, and that seems to be continuing today. Jo did neglect to take her Gabapentin last night though so the pain cannot have been that intense.

Today has seen the return of some neglect symptoms, with Jo failing to see things to the left of centre, even when that centre was on her right, leaning to the left and leaving food on the left side of her mouth.

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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.