Friday, 10 July 2009

A frustrating week

It's been a frustrating week as the physiotherapy sessions, which were already cut down from two to one as one of the physiotherapists was on holiday, were further reduced to nothing when the other physiotherapist fell ill. I've been away all week working and so have not been able to fill the gap. All this just makes Jo more despondent, which is the last thing she needs.

Once again I find myself frustrated at the state of private health care in the UK, which largely consists of vanity treatments because of the monolithic presence of the NHS, which is great at critical care but parlous at providing chronic care. With no real funding base beyond vanity treatments, private health care is in no position to fill the gap.

It is an extremely frustrating position to be in. Jo has the will and she is getting better but the availability of help is extremely limited unless you have the personal wealth to fund it which, unfortunately, I don't.
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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.