Wednesday, 26 August 2009

A new wheelchair

Jo picked up her new wheelchair today. She managed a transfer from the old one to the new one with a very good stand and walk around, not a sand and swivel. Hopefully, as well as giving her more independent mobility, the chair will give her more exercise as she as gone up to 17 stone.

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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.