Saturday, 18 April 2009

Still afraid of falling

Jo had pain in her left leg today, preventing her from getting herself into a sitting position on the side of the bed. It seems like muscle pain and not neuropathic. Hopefully this is a sign of returning muscle tone in the knee and foot. I am not sure how this ties in with the fact that her left foot keeps tipping over on the left. Jo also admitted she is still afraid of falling since the fall. Her confidence in standing, which was good before the fall, still hasn't returned.

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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.