Wednesday, 25 November 2009

A fall has upset us both

Jo suffered another fall today. I was transferring her to the wheelchair using the rotunda. Whereas the last fall was backward, which I have been taking precautions to prevent since the last fall, this time she fell forward. I tried to catch her but her weight and gravity were against us.

The sooner we start doing transfers without the rotunda the better as the rotunda is inherently unsafe, having contributed to two falls now, none of which helps her confidence.
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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.