Wednesday, 22 July 2009

The whole nine yards

Jo repeated her achievement of last week, that of walking the nine yards from her chair in the front room to the front door today. Last week took there attempts as Jo had to keep stopping for a rest as the pain from her left foot was so intense.

The physiotherapists say this pain is the foot waking up and trying to walk. Certainly Jo described the pain as intense pins and needles. We have all experienced that when a limb "goes to sleep." Is this the pain of increasing spasticity as described in Brunnstrom’s seven stages of rehabilitation?

In any event Jo managed the feat in just two stages today. The pain is still there and so intense she is literally crying in pain, but she seemed to overcome that quicker this week than last. Hopefully next week she can walk the whole nine yards in one go.

Posted by Unknown at 15:40

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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.