Tuesday, 22 September 2009

In the swim

Jo had her first hydrotherapy session today and it went very well. She was able to stand unaided in the water and move her leg freely in the water. The buoyancy of the water meant that it was harder to place and control her left leg at the deep end but she managed the stand in the shallower water.

The physiotherapist manipulated the muscles in her arm and leg and I saw some slight movement of the arm whilst in the water. This bodes very well and she has another session booked for next week.

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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.