Friday, 9 October 2009

A Step Onto The Scales

Jo's physiotherapy was very fulfiling today. Jo managed her walk to the hallway and her stepping was more purposeful than ever before, showing the beneficial effect of the hydrotherapy sessions. Jo did experience pain in the left leg, from her ankle to her knee. The physiotherapist identified this as muscle stretch, that is the pain of muscles being brought into use after a long period of dormancy.

Jo then attempted to stand on the new Salter scales purchased for this purpose as they had a wide footplate. Placing her left foot on the scales she stood, putting all her weight on that leg and stepped up onto them with her right leg. There was no pain in the left leg dvring this, despite all of her weight being transferred to this side during the procedure.

As a further bonus the scales revealed that Jo had lost 14 pounds over the last month as a result of following a low carbohydrate diet.

Posted by Unknown at 17:36

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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.