Wednesday, 15 July 2009

Jo walks to the front door

Jo had her first physiotherapy session for two weeks today. Using the the new gutter frame, specially adapted for her height and with support and guidance from the two physiotherapists, Jo was able to walk from her chair in the front room to the front door, a distance of some nine yards. Although it was painful, as the muscle spasticity has increased in line with Brunnstrom's seven phases of rehabilitation, Jo was jubilant about this achievement, as am I.
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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.