Monday, 12 October 2009

Signs of progress

Today Jo had a "fitting" for a new wheelchair to address the issues of lack of support for her left arm and the fact that it is too low. The fitting went well, with us identifying that it is the lower height of her current chair that is making transfers into the car more difficult.

During the course of the fitting Jo had to perform several transfers from one chair to the other. What really impressed me was the relative ease with which Jo performed these operations. It is only a matter of degree and progress remains agonisingly slow but we both could see that progress is being made.

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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.