Wednesday, 19 August 2009

It’s too hot!

The weather continues to be uncomfortably hot and muggy, which interferes with Jo’s rehabilitation. In the evening Jo suffered a fall as a result of this as, when I was transferring her using the rotunda, she lost her balanced a fell backwards. She was able to control the fall and so did not suffer any damage but it took three paramedics to lift her back off the floor. The humid weather just makes her left side go heavy and limp and we will be glad when this heat wave is over.

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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.