This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
Second physiotherapy session with a new team
I missed Jo's second physiotherapy session with the hospital team but Jo's feedback was not inspiring. Although there are to be two sessions next week they do not seem to be generating that crucial enthusiasm that Jo needs at this stage.
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.
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