Friday, 15 May 2009

New functionality

Jo demonstrated her new exercises, given to her to perform herself by the new physiotherapist. One consists of straightening the leg and raising it from the floor to a position parallel with the floor from a sitting position, then holding it there for a count of five. Both Jo and I were pleasantly surprised to find she could do this.

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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.