Friday, 18 September 2009

First steps with a zimmer frame

A zimmer frame arrived for Jo and she tried it out with the physiotherapists today. She was very hesitant as the zimmer frame requires her to stand more upright and does not allow her to lean on her forearms as the gutter frame does. Consequently she only managed one step with the zimmer frame before reverting to the gutter frame.

The physiotherapists said this was natural and that they continued to be impressed by her progress, saying she was now lifting and placing the left leg with no assistance.

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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.