Thursday, 16 April 2009

Walking the length of the gym

Jo had a really good physiotherapy session today. The physiotherapist had opened up the dividing doors so we had the full length of the two gyms. Jo walked using the big walking frame and completed two lengths of the two gyms, with four steps of her left foot on the first pass and three on the second completely unaided.

The physiotherapist thought the pain Jo has been experiencing since Tuesday was muscular pain and may be related to returning muscle tone. Certainly Jo seems to have more muscle tone on her left side generally.

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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.