Monday, 30 November 2009

Step and stand to sit

We concentrated on Jo’s step and stand to sit with Jo’s physiotherapy session today. After her fall last week we wanted to get practice in transfers without the damned rotunda.

Jo was hesitant but actually did rather well. The only hindrance was her left hand, which has become relaxed and is not gripping the zimmer frame. I had noticed this last week when Jo was walking using the frame. Normally this would be a good sign as that means the muscle spasticity is decreasing, a sign of possible returning movement. The fact that Jo is also experiencing the waking up pain in her left arm and hand lends further weight to this. Let us hope so.

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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.