Thursday, 25 June 2009

Signs of botox efficacy


This morning, as Jo performed a stretch, the fingers of her left hand extended as she did so. Is this an early sign of the botox working I wonder?

In what would appear to be breaking news an Australian man, who was confined to a wheelchair for 20 years, after a stroke at the age of 26, can walk again after treatment with botox.

As well as being an inspiration, this story lends the lie to the oft-quoted shibboleth that all repair of the brain ends after two years. That two year figure is actually the length of time of any studies done to date, not any true figure of the optimum length of time during which the brain can heal at all.

Posted by Unknown at 08:37

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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.