Tuesday, 3 November 2009

Water baby!

Once again Jo's hydrotherapy session demonstrated her affinity with water and the efficacy of that medium for physical rehabilitation.
Jo's enthusiasm manifested itself even before she got in the water as she opted to stand without the rotunda or any other assistance whilst changing into her costume.

Once in the water Jo began performing the scissors movement with her legs whilst floating on her back unprompted and with as much visible control of her left leg as the right.

She also performed stands with much more positivity than last week and with no cries of pain. She truly is a water baby.
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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.