Friday, 28 August 2009

Better stands

Jo’s physiotherapy session was earlier than we expected today, at 10:45 instead of 13:30. Jo is not as good in the morning and her left foot gave her a lot of pain. She still managed several good stands without support and made her nine yard walk to the front door, albeit with a lot of cries of pain.

Nevertheless the therapists were impressed with her progress and set goals for independent standing and walking transfers. The walk to the front door has been extended to a return journey and it is hoped to move Jo from the gutter frame to a zimmer frame within four weeks.

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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.