Thursday, 19 February 2009

Bone flap fitting and a brief moment in time

We went to Addenbrookes today for the fitting of the bone flap. I went for a coffee and it was all over by the time I got back. The clinician simply held the plate to her forehead to check for fit. I insisted on seeing him. The bone flap is titanium and has been moulded from Jo's bone flap, which I saw preserved in plastic. Now it goes to be placed in a sterile container until the neurosurgeon requests it for the operation, which could be any day from tomorrow.

We were sitting in the coffee shop afterwards when Stephen Hawking came in, in his special wheelchair and attended by a young man. It seemed strangely synchronous seeing him in that place under those circumstances.

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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.