Tuesday, 17 November 2009

Treading water

Jo’s hydrotherapy session today was good, insofar as she demonstrated increasing strength in the scissors movement and improved ability in pedalling whilst on her back. Standing from a squatting position was also better.

The physiotherapist did not have her colleague there so could not try walking in the water again and  we both came away slightly deflated at the slow rate of progress.

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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.