Tuesday, 15 September 2009

Like a landslide

An occupational therapist came around to assess Jo and our house today, specifically to look at adapting the downstairs bathroom for Jo's needs, turning it into a wet room to enable Jo to take a shower.

While she was here she related an interesting analogy for brain damage, comparing its effects to that of a landslide blocking off a road. In this analogy rehabilation is like an earthmover clearing a path through the rubble, with each movement of the affected limbs carving out pathways to the brain.

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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.