Friday, 16 October 2009

Pain and Progress

Jo's physiotherapy session went well despite her mental attitude, which has been negative all week. She performed the nine yard walk without any assistance placing her foot. Halfway through the walk she began to complain of pain in her knee and had a panic attack.

The physiotherapist thought this might be 'predictive pain' where anxiety about the returning muscle function causes one to experience pain.

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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.