Sunday, 10 May 2009

Neglect comes and goes

We had a busy weekend with lots of transfers. By and large these were good but there is a certain amount of coming and going, which seems partly due to tiredness but also would appear to be the "nature of the beast".

It would appear to be the same with the hemispatial neglect; Jo frustratingly tends to keep her head turned to the right and I have to constantly keep directing her attention to objects on her left. When having a coffee on Saturday Jo could not see the two packets of sugar on the left of her saucer. When I said that was where they were she felt for them, as if searching for an object in the dark. When her fingers alighted on the packets she could suddenly see them and proceeded to pick one up, then the other without any fumbling.

On Sunday morning Jo raised both legs at the knee when she first woke up.

Posted by Unknown at 17:35

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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.