Thursday, 21 August 2008

First physiotherapy

Jo had her first physiotherapy session today, designed to reawaken the memory in her brain of the fact it has a left arm and leg to look after. There was some success, with small movement being encouraged in both arm and leg. I saw the neurosurgeon, who said there was no brain damage, which he described as remarkable, and that physiotherapy would see her recover the movement in the left arm and leg.

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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.