This blog was started to share my experience of caring for someone with severe hemiplegia in the hope it may help others.
Monday, 1 June 2009
Helping to put her shoes on
Today Jo was able to hold her left foot up to allow her shoe to be put on and managed to lift her foot on to the footplate of the wheelchair, the first time she has managed this.
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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