Wednesday, 10 June 2009

Pain and progress

Jo's physiotherapy session was stymied by two things today. The time available was halved as the timing coincided with Jo's morning bowel movement and, once the session was underway, Jo experienced pain in her left leg, which I later discovered was due to Jo neglecting to take her medication.

Despite this the physiotherapists professed their satisfaction with Jo's progress, saying her steps were stronger and expressing the view that the pain was due to the limb waking up.

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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.