Wednesday, 5 August 2009

Getting better every day

Jo had a good physiotherapy session today, successfully standing several times on her own and managing to stand for several minutes without relying on the standing frame for support.

She repeated her walk to the front door, using the gutter frame and with assistance from the physiotherapists. This week Jo managed that walk with no breaks at all. On the first week she had broken her walk twice to sit down for a rest, on the second attempt she rested once but today she did not stop for a rest, despite the fact she is stil finding it very painful.

I now have a contact to arrange complementary hydrotherapy. Hopefully this will accelerate progress even further.

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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.