Thursday, 4 June 2009

Movement from the ankle

The NHS installed a bed stick by Jo's bed today. Hopefully this, coupled with the bed elevator, will help her get herself out of bed.

In the evening Jo was sitting in the recliner chair with her legs elevated. She found she was able to move her left foot back from the ankle, something she has not achieved before. Earlier in the day she had been exercising these muscles by pulling her foot back with a strap looped around the foot. It would seem remarkable that this small stimulus has shown such immediate improvement so perhaps it is just her rehabilitation progressing.

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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.