Friday, 1 May 2009

Dealing with muddle management

The Community Stroke Support liaison came around. She is going to see if we can get extra money from the council for an extra visit when I am away. That way we could have five or even six visits on those days. Then there could be a morning, lunchtime, mid-afternoon, teatime and bedtime visits. If the bed time visit was earlier on those days that would suffice to cover the periods when Jo needs a toilet break. She also said the hospital physiotherapist could request further visits from the Collaborative Care team for rehabilitation exercise if she felt that was necessary. It all seems such a nonsense all this chopping and changing, especially as the physiotherapists all work on the same team! That is symptomatic of a National Health System that is overrun by muddle managers I guess.

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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.