Wednesday, 11 November 2009

The beneficial effects of hydrotherapy…

… manifested themselves in Jo’s physiotherapy session today. Following on from yesterday’s session in the water Jo was able to complete the nine yard walk using only the zimmer frame and lifting and placing her left foot more than before. She also performed some impressive stands from a sitting position unaided.

Sadly the next physiotherapy session isn’t until next Friday, which has us both wondering if we should invest the money into paying for private physiotherapy sessions and stepping up (pun intended) the frequency to five one half hour sessions a week. That would be £250 a week but, as I keep telling Jo, how can you put a price on the ability to walk?

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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.