Tuesday, 12 August 2008

A miracle

Jo is a little more stable today. Her heart rate is a more normal 90-100 and she shows some signs of responding. Jo is still under sedation. It seems the right part of the brain has suffered a mild stroke, affecting the left arm and there is hope that the left side of her body, specifically the leg, will only suffer from the brain being asleep for so long and will be able to be treated with physiotherapy. For now the main focus is on making sure the brain swelling does not reappear and on maintaining her vital functions. I saw the neurosurgeon who said things were looking a lot better and described it as a miracle.

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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.